Example sentences of "[num] times [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final report — almost eight times as long as the interim — was able to cover the same ground in more detail and also to extend the coverage to a wide range of ethnic minority groups . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The radial shields are long and thin , about 3–4 times as long as broad , separated from one another and recessed into the disk . |
| 4 | The radial shields are 3–4 times as long as broad , extending to just over half the radius of the disk . |
| 5 | The arms are 3–4 times as long as the disk diameter . |
| 6 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |
| 7 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 8 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 9 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 10 | Industrial prices by then had risen two to three times more quickly than agricultural ones . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lysine 85 is protected almost three times as well as any other lysine in H5 . |
| 13 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 19 | In 1558 , he worked up his letter into a second edition , three times as long as the first , which he certainly wrote as an outright attack ; and his portrayal of the dowager in his History of Scotland is one of hacking savagery . |
| 20 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 21 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 22 | It resembled a huge , tubby fish , about three times as long as I was tall , with thick appendages like fins trying to become legs . |
| 23 | Peck in his bull-running pamphlet of 1723 insults the bullards by saying they were ‘ habited Ten Thousand Times more nastily than so many Witches on a Plow Monday ’ . |
| 24 | To take advantage of that large amount of fuel , we have to develop what are there is the fast reactors , and this is Britain 's fast reactor a fast reactor erm uses energy erm about sixty time uses uranium about sixty times more efficiently than the present type of reactors not sixty percent but sixty times so it obviously has tremendous implications for uranium resources . |
| 25 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 26 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 27 | Over all , the white actor was preferred ten times more often than the black one . |
| 28 | The radial shields are about 1.5–2 times as long as broad , separated for their whole length . |
| 29 | The radial shields are about 3 times as long as broad and fully separated . |
| 30 | The radial shields extend over half the radius of the disk and are about 3 times as long as broad . |