Example sentences of "five time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of every summer term for goodness knows how long , my name had appeared five times on the new lecture list . |
| 2 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 3 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 4 | But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin group will be content to stay a minority player in the long term . |
| 5 | Sir : Your Outlook Column ( 3 October ) ended with the statement : But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin Group will be content to stay a minority player . |
| 6 | Aubrey Boomer 's tournament career was also confined to the Continent , where he was extremely successful , winning the French Open a record five times between 1921 and 1931 , the Belgian Open twice , the Dutch Open twice and the Italian Open once . |
| 7 | At 212½ p , down 111 2 p yesterday , the shares are on five times earnings assuming pre-tax profits of £43m this year . |
| 8 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 9 | - Chris Patten ‘ I have spoken four or five times at party conferences and people always laugh at everything I say . |
| 10 | These will end up in the pot , a bit skinny from their hyper-active existence , but tasting five times as good as any bird you can buy . |
| 11 | A motorist who was five times over the drink-drive limit , twice within 24 hours , was put on probation for two years , and banned from driving for three years by magistrates at Exeter . |
| 12 | Like , I 've seen my name written down about five times on that last page . |
| 13 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 14 | I have probably discussed it less than five times in twelve years with the straits . |
| 15 | The total real value of exports from a selection of seven African countries rose three and half times from 1907 to 1928 , a further five times from 1928 to 1959 and a further four times from 1959 to 1982 . |
| 16 | four or five times as I watch the skua tries and each time it fails . |
| 17 | For example , if you place £2 on a horse with odds of 5/1 , and it wins , you win £10 ( five times £2 ) . |
| 18 | You can also filter four or five times a day . ’ |
| 19 | This country alone could support 250 MILLION people on a plant based diet , that 's almost five times the current population . |
| 20 | Rotate the ankle five times in each direction . |
| 21 | Its newspaper , Trybuna Ludu , lost 1.7billion zloties ( £382,500 ) last year ; this year it is expected to lose nearly five times as much . |
| 22 | The Afghan crop is now four or five times that of Pakistan , and rising rapidly . |
| 23 | England have now won silver or bronze medals behind Russian gold five times out of five in the most recent world and Olympic team events , sufficient to establish Britain as world No. 2 chess nation . |
| 24 | The original agreement with Lion Nathan was disclosed on September 19 and has subsequently been postponed five times . |
| 25 | Senior White House aides and CIA officials have been telling members of the Congressional Intelligence Committees this week that Gen Noriega is drinking heavily , taking drugs , and is so nervous that he moves addresses four and five times a night . |
| 26 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 27 | The chorus , repeated five times , is the plaintive , rhetorical question : ‘ when will you die ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 29 | While Mao controlled barely 1m people in Yan'an , Mr Deng had five times that number in Taihang , a far more economically successful region . |
| 30 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |