Example sentences of "time [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 2 | This gamma ray carries away 24 MeV of energy but this process is very rare , occurring some ten million times less frequently than the neutron or tritium production channels . |
| 3 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 4 | Sri Lankans instituted charges of crimes against the person and property many times more frequently than did Indians . |
| 5 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 6 | Hiatal hernia occurred in asthmatics with oesophagitis seven times more frequently than it occurred in asthmatics without oesophagitis ( odds ratio=7.0 ; confidence interval=3.5–14.2 ; χ 2 =33.2 ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 7 | In asthmatics with oesophagitis , a hiatal hernia occurred seven times more frequently than in asthmatics without oesophagitis . |
| 8 | Kurata et al reported that duodenal ulcers were diagnosed 2.5 times more frequently than gastric ulcers in Los Angeles , California . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Very often , with the benefit of hindsight , people can look back on their lives and identify stressful times more easily than identifying the present stresses that may surround them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Industrial prices by then had risen two to three times more quickly than agricultural ones . |
| 14 | One is that a comparatively nearby star in our Galaxy exploded as a supernova , shining millions of times more brightly than usual . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 18 | Over all , the white actor was preferred ten times more often than the black one . |
| 19 | It is usually paid for via state-funded organisations and can at least be relied on even if it can be at times both economically and spiritually unrewarding . |
| 20 | These techniques allow the anisotropic parameters to be estimated more reliably and computed a hundred times as fast as previously . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Pentium is five times as fast as the Intel 486 chip found in the swiftest of today 's desktop PCs . |
| 23 | The detector zoned system , however , is about four times as fast as the 29th edition system in detection , and requires only about one-fifth of the water for fire control . |
| 24 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 25 | Its commerce was increasing perhaps four times as fast as the rest of the country between 1716 and 1800 . |
| 26 | There were bad times as well as good . |
| 27 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 28 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 29 | A second report , from Christian Aid , another British charity , shows how the West 's policies of subsidised farming can inflict damage on African farmers in good times as well as lean . |
| 30 | Lysine 85 is protected almost three times as well as any other lysine in H5 . |