Example sentences of "[prep] three times " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with a superior points difference , Vipers seem set to clinch promotion from Midlands Two West after three times finishing runners-up . |
| 2 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 3 | To get on to the housing ladder , the first-time buyer has to find a deposit of 5% or more of the property price , and with a typical housing price/income ratio of three times , this can represent 15% or more of annual income . |
| 4 | How can the Institute justify charging its members in excess of three times the cost of comparable courses ? |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't mind more work , ’ Anna said , ‘ but I have to confess that my heart does rather quail and fail at the thought of three times as much French jacquard-weaving machinery specifications to translate as I have already . ’ |
| 6 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 7 | However , the loss of family credit and housing benefit ensures that some poor working families face a marginal tax rate of three times this level . |
| 8 | This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income . |
| 9 | In the USA public spending on medical benefits ( ignoring tax relief ) is around 470 per person per year and private spending about 640 , giving a total of three times the UK figure . |
| 10 | Portman also has a maximum of three times first income , but pegs its second income multiplier to 1.25 times . |
| 11 | This heading is quite extravagant on fabric and needs fullness of three times the track length for true box pleats which butt up against each other . |
| 12 | Similarly the deck can be shuffled and re-dealt a maximum of three times . |
| 13 | times three times five and what 's that come to ? |
| 14 | ‘ We recommend that users turn the tap on and off three times to give full rinsing , ’ he says . |
| 15 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
| 16 | Carrington 's flight was put off three times , and when he did go it was in the belly of a Mosquito , lying on a blanket and wrapped in a heavy coat . |
| 17 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 18 | Under Section 226 contracts , this is expressed as three times pensionable earnings . |
| 19 | Right so write it as about here write it as three times seventeen , minus two . |
| 20 | Yet in the end it sold the site for three times the amount that the City expected to obtain by demolishing the buildings . |
| 21 | The weights were derived from hospital bed utilization rates in each age-sex category ; if , for example , elderly women accounted for three times as many bed-days as middle-aged men , they counted three times as heavily in calculating the weighted population total . |
| 22 | They will exchange their £30-a-day allowance for three times that much on the black market when they go back home . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 25 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 26 | Basically this provides that controlling persons who ‘ knowingly or recklessly ’ fail to supervise their employees properly , with a view to preventing insider dealing violations , can be made liable for three times the profit made or loss avoided ( this may not exceed a $1m fine ) for violations committed by their employees or other controlled persons . |
| 27 | There is also provision for private litigation , whereby private parties can sue for three times the damages inflicted upon them by violations of the law . |
| 28 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
| 29 | In the standard test the oesophageal pH was monitored 5 cm above the manometrically defined lower sphincter during four provocations ( deep breathing Valsalva manoeuvre and cough , for three times , and Trendelenburg position for three minutes ) , when a fall to pH<4 was considered to indicate reflux . |
| 30 | for three times |