Example sentences of "time [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |
| 2 | At times my skateboarding skills astounded me : zipping around corners , weaving through obstacles etc . |
| 3 | Her head was three times its normal size , one huge , crusty , black blister , her eyes like two slit tennis balls , and the lower half of her face seemed to have no features at all except enormous fat black lips that covered her nostrils and chin . |
| 4 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 5 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 6 | With 1,465 golf courses now in operation and planning approval granted for 762 more , the heyday of farmers selling their land for three times its agricultural value may be past . |
| 7 | Because of the internal pressure of these reactions , the star swells up to many times its former size to become a ‘ red giant ’ . |
| 8 | The River Avon , having swollen to ten times its usual size , floods Hilperton , near Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 9 | Normally pear-sized , the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy . |
| 10 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 11 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 12 | Bids for an oak standing court cabinet made in Flanders around 1520 rose to a startling FFr2.5 million ( £259,800 ; $425,000 ) , ten times its low estimate and another world record , while a more richly decorated and rich hued world cupboard with grotesque masks , Anjou work around 1600 , went for a modest FFr400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) ( estimate FFr200–250,000 ) . |
| 13 | Near impact , the effective weight of the club head is about 150 times its actual weight . |
| 14 | With this award the Programme will be expanded to more than three times its present size and become one of the University 's most important academic developments . |
| 15 | The storage area for raw materials , packaging and finished products is also being increased , by three times its present size , greatly reducing our reliance on external warehousing . |
| 16 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 17 | That in probability the next doubling of the people of England will be in about 600 years to come , or by the year of our Lord 2300 ; at which time it will have eleven millions of people ; but , that the next doubling after that , will not be ( in all probability ) in less than 12 or 1300 years more , or by the year of our Lord 3500 or 3600 ; at which time the kingdom will have 22 millions of souls , or four times its present number , in case the world should last so long , |
| 18 | In fact one ( admittedly optimistic ) international study of agricultural potential estimated that the world could feed 25 times its present population . |
| 19 | In response , the Ministry of Agriculture has suggested that the current Maximum Residue Level ( MRL ) of triazophos pesticide — used to kill carrot fly — be raised 20 times its current level to two milligrams per kilogram of carrots . |
| 20 | This book would be many times its current length had I explained everything in detail . |
| 21 | Legs have become elongated into catapults that can propel an insect two hundred times its own body length , broad oars to row , it through water or thin hair-tipped stilts with a wide stride that enables their owners to walk on the surface of pools . |
| 22 | Natural gas contains up to 95 per cent methane , a gas with a high calorific value which requires ten times its own volume of air for complete combustion . |
| 23 | The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . |
| 24 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 25 | However , carbon produces more then 3.5 times its own weight in carbon dioxide so there is a problem in disposing of it . |
| 26 | The grain is a polyacrylamide called Agrosoke , which can absorb 40 times its own weight in water . |
| 27 | Johnson & Johnson in Canada is currently making sanitary towels out of the stuff ( peat moss soaks up 12 times its own weight of liquid ) . |
| 28 | Leave until it rises to three times its initial volume , then cook in a preheated oven ( 220C/425F/Gas 7 ) for 30 mins . |
| 29 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 30 | Professor Robert E. Ornstein of the University of California , a recognised expert in left and right brain research , has proved that when you develop the second side of your brain you actually enhance your mental powers by anything from five to ten times its previous level . |