Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 2 | The fact is that they are a million times better than many of the new trainers on the market and a lot harder to find . |
| 3 | Mentally , they are a hundred times stronger . |
| 4 | cos you know they 're a million times ahead . |
| 5 | Would n't it be a zillion times better to destroy it ? |
| 6 | So it 's a million times minus a million . |
| 7 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 8 | No matter how badly designed it is , it 's a thousand times better than what was here before . |
| 9 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's a thousand times better than you are ! ’ |
| 11 | It was just like before , back at the jetty , only this time it was a hundred times worse . |
| 12 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |