Example sentences of "[art] [det] times [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is right — the more times a golfer is in contention , the more often he will lose . |
| 2 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 3 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 4 | And yet somebody else might have three or four thousand down , and that 's because they 're jetting off to er foreign climes a few times a year . |
| 5 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 6 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 7 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 8 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 9 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 10 | a few times a week and I think it sounded like three cos she was wondering how he would cope with driving and everything . |
| 11 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 12 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 13 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 14 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 15 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 16 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 17 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 18 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 19 | The swollen testis was two and a half times the size of the normal one and very hard . |
| 20 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 21 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
| 22 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 23 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 24 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
| 25 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 26 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
| 27 | Suicides by vets are more than three and a half times the average for all groups , says the latest issue of Population Trends from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |