Example sentences of "times [adv] often [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 2 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 3 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 4 | Over all , the white actor was preferred ten times more often than the black one . |
| 5 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |
| 6 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 7 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 8 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |