Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of making a mistake , however , is likely to be many times greater |
| 2 | Histamine has previously been shown to be 10 times less potent in stimulating cAMP concentrations in gastric glands isolated from guinea pig antrum when compared with glands isolated from the fundus ( 9×10 - 5 M compared with 10 - 5 M ) . |
| 3 | Further dilution established the compound to be 200 times as sweet as sugar . |
| 4 | The former measurement is in terms of a value equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the root-means square pressure of a sound to the reference pressure , which is normally taken to be two times ten to the minus five newtons per square metre , and the unit of measurement is on a uniform scale based upon ten times the logarithm to the base ten |
| 5 | So , er it 's going to be first time you ever experience it , actually on , for real as it were ? |
| 6 | So the answer is going to be four times a hundred , four hundred . |
| 7 | It uses the Iris GL 4.0 graphics library , claimed to be five times faster than Sun 's XGL library . |
| 8 | Triton SCI will offer bridges to VME-based systems and is claimed to be five times faster than systems that will be built around the emerging Futurebus+ standard . |
| 9 | Success for Bonallack was not to be long delayed , for in 1961 he won the championship for the first of what was to be five times , the fifth being at Royal Co Down in 1970 , the last occasion on which it was held in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | This is an easy way of getting light into a garage , and the glazing material used by Cardale is said to be 100 times stronger than glass . |
| 11 | San Jose-based Chips & Technologies Inc has come out with a universal input-output controller with a parallel port to accelerate printing under Microsoft Corp Windows and other graphic user interfaces : called the 82C735 , the controller looks after the printing with Printgine , an enhanced bi-directional parallel port interface that can transfer data at a rate claimed to be 100 times faster than existing systems , sending up to 2M-bytes per second of data to printers , scanners , local area networks , tape back-up systems and other peripherals connected to a parallel port . |
| 12 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 13 | Last night , there he was again between the sections of The Greatest Story ( Signals , C4 ) , a kind of Michelin guide to the Hindu poem generally said to be 15 times as long as the Bible ; a fact I am not inclined to check . |
| 14 | In fact , when compared with another leading sensitive skincare brand in independent laboratory tests , the Sensiq Skin Care Collection was found to be seven times less likely to cause irritation . |
| 15 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 16 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 17 | The only thing that did n't work was the understanding that we had to be big time very quickly . |
| 18 | About 15 years ago , three months was considered to be sufficient time for a sales director with two years ' service to convince his company of his competence . |
| 19 | A Bill may well be approved , if time is available , in which case whether it ever completes its course depends entirely on whether there happens to be sufficient time . |
| 20 | For example , a manufacturer of bathroom and kitchen taps might wish to assess the potential market for taps in country A and country B. The income per capita in country A might be three times the income per capita in country B , and so the manufacturer might assess the potential market for taps to be three times as large in country A as in country B. However , the inhabitants of country B might live in larger houses than people in country A , and the country B houses might have an average 1 ½ times more bathrooms/kitchens . |
| 21 | Clarke was later breathalysed and found to be three times over the legal limit for driving . |
| 22 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 23 | Greenpeace has published an analysis showing that an illicit trade in toxic waste exists which is estimated to be three times larger than the legal trade . |
| 24 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 25 | Tests by the Severn Trent laboratories proved Coastguard to be three times as effective against viruses as its nearest rival-yet much less expensive . |
| 26 | So that 's going to be three times ten that 'll be ? |
| 27 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown added : ‘ These are going to be difficult times for the Royal Family and the whole House will wish to extend to them our sympathy , in particular to the Prince and Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 28 | Even if that were scaled down to 35 TW , the world in 2030 would still require 1.6 times as much oil as in 1980 , 3.4 times as much natural gas and nearly 6 times as much coal , and nuclear capacity would have to be 30 times greater than in 1980 . |
| 29 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 30 | Mr Grimstone stressed that the perks would only be available to those who registered their interest in advance , with the cut-off date likely to be some time in mid-November . |