Example sentences of "it is [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is twelve times as rich in fats and four times as rich in proteins as the best Jersey cow 's milk . |
| 2 | It is second time lucky for Gateshead , who almost staged the first of these championships last year . |
| 3 | I would say it is five times more difficult than at any other time of the year . ’ |
| 4 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 5 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 . |
| 6 | It is four times stronger than its equivalent in hardwood , offering excellent security . |
| 7 | Manchester University 's Computing Centre will soon boast the largest single computational node in the UK when it replaces its VP1200 supercomputer with a VPX240/10 machine from Fujitsu Systems Business ( Europe ) : it is the first Fujitsu VPX machine to be sold in the UK since launch last year 's launch and features one scalar processor , one 2.5GFLOPS vector processor , 1Gb main memory , 1Gb of secondary memory ; it is four times faster than the five-year-old system it is replacing and will be used for computational fluid dynamics and engineering research ; delivery is planned for July ; no price was given . |
| 8 | So what I 'm saying is we need to be very , as soon as you get the stuff , that , if you wan na get anything out of this course at all , and what people do get out of the course , is the fact that by the time they leave here we 've said right , that 's the way we 're going that 's what we 're gon na aim for and it is reasonable time . |
| 9 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 10 | There are long stretches when I forget this experience totally , so much so that when it suddenly comes into my mind again it is each time with the shock of newness . |
| 11 | It is that time when I gather up all that has happened in my day , and all that is going to happen today . |
| 12 | It is THAT time of year again . |
| 13 | It is that time of year again when we all trail off around the world to some exotic destination to experience some real ethnic culture , or even Mrs Fishfinger 's Bed & Breakfast in Blackpool . |
| 14 | It is that time of year when dawn and dustmen arrive together . |
| 15 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 16 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 17 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |
| 18 | Come on , Doctor : have n't you short-circuited the mad scientist 's gizmo yet , or bamboozled the megalomaniac survivor of an ancient race of warrior wizards , or whatever it is this time ? |
| 19 | I know what it is this time , though , love . ’ |
| 20 | It is this time which pays dividends . |
| 21 | It is twenty-three times as expensive to provide health care for those over 85 as for people aged between 16 and 44 ( see Figure 10.1 ) . |
| 22 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 23 | If it is some time since you last exercised on a regular basis , spend a few weeks following a gentle stretching and warming-up routine . |
| 24 | It is some time since I have had any work done by British Telecom , so I do not remember whether hills are presented in detail . |
| 25 | It is some time since we looked in any detail at the program and functions of the Singer 9000 machine , so I thought we would concentrate a little on some of the functions of programming , rather than on knitting . |
| 26 | It is some time since I heard news of him . |
| 27 | ‘ It is some time since I heard that last piece played so well . ’ |
| 28 | As I say , you owe me something , and if you 're determined to go on pretending you do n't know that , I 'll be delighted to tell you what it is some time soon , but not right now . |
| 29 | I am aware it is some time since we spoke regarding Beeslack but I have been awaiting a response from , Senior Education Maintenance Officer concerning the tree planting proposed for the rough area in the corner of the playing field . |
| 30 | I am glad that my hon. Friend has given way again , because it is some time since I smelt a rat in the Chamber , but there is one knocking about tonight . |