Example sentences of "time [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other times the man in charge of the relevant section or the local man might be a better choice . |
| 2 | Holiday accommodation understandably experiences considerable wear and tear and at times the standard of decoration or furnishings may suffer or the operation of technical systems ( e.g. hot water ) may prove to be less than adequate . |
| 3 | Researchers have found fish there with 24 times the level of mercury considered safe by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 4 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |
| 5 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
| 6 | Jac Nasser , Ford 's European chief , claims that his firm has ‘ ten times the level of commitment that the Japanese transplants have . ’ |
| 7 | In Wordperfect 's estimation the resellers usually make up to five times the money from installation and integration as from the actual product sale . |
| 8 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 9 | At all times the angle of climb and the combination of speed and height must be such that a safe recovery can be made if the launch fails . |
| 10 | This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units — or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain — and that 's if you remember everything in this book . |
| 11 | Outer and Inner Mongolia together are more than 13 times the size of mainland Britain . |
| 12 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 13 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
| 14 | Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’ |
| 15 | Although this is almost five times the proportion of non-handicapped who were unemployed , the figures also show that almost half of ‘ handicapped ’ 18 year olds were in employment , even if most of the jobs were repetitive , unrewarding and insecure . |
| 16 | In full configuration , it is claimed to offer ‘ five times the performance of mainframe systems ’ — but that depends on users writing applications that can keep all the processors popping , and that is the hard part . |
| 17 | This is covered in a relatively non-mathematical way by Ramakant Nevatia 's Machine Perception , but at four times the price per page of Foley 's book , students may be reluctant to buy it . |
| 18 | Diesel fuel now costs over four times the price of coal , for energy produced , and all the indications are that the gap will widen . |
| 19 | He 's had 10 times the number of commission bids for Vung Tau as he had for Nanking — ‘ and this is a much smaller cargo ’ . |
| 20 | According to Israel 's Ministry of Industry & Trade the country has about twice the number of scientists and engineers per capita involved in research and development work than the US and Japan and five times the number in South Korea : 135 per 10,000 in the workforce against 70 per 10,000 in the US , 65 in Japan and 25 in South Korea . |
| 21 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 22 | Some plant-eaters were as much as 40 times the weight of Allosaurus . |
| 23 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 24 | Yet peas , extolled by advertisers for their tenderness , in fact contain more than four times the fibre of celery , weight for weight . |
| 25 | In Soviet times the onset of spring was also signalled by that dismal rite , the publication of official slogans in advance of May Day . |
| 26 | It 's always taken twice , three times the length of time as anybody else ? |
| 27 | But in the bad times the market for second and retirement homes disappeared , and the local market ca n't take up the slack . |
| 28 | So let's sum up , I treated a similar case with 5 times the amount of fluid than the article used , the case was solid the next day and was viewed for 3 days and had no greying off and the colour was really good . |
| 29 | I am not surprised that the Minister declines to give us the figures because is not the truth that about 60 to 80 times the amount of money is being spent per capita on students at the city technology college than is spent on pupils at secondary schools in Sunderland and surrounding boroughs ? |
| 30 | A club which exists on a shoestring budget could have elected to play Rangers on a neutral ground , and made at least four times the amount of money Arbroath will get from next month 's Cup tie . |