Example sentences of "[verb] about [num] times [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , they need walking about three times a day do n't they ? |
| 2 | I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years . |
| 3 | Similarly , mechanisms to excrete at least most of the excess salt that we eat , since most of us consume about ten times the amount necessary for our bodily needs . |
| 4 | ‘ We only meet about three times a term , ’ one drastically lean lady was telling him ; ‘ and the dates are always fixed well in advance so all you have to do is arrange to be free on that evening . ’ |
| 5 | It contracts about seventy times a minute pumping blood around our body . |
| 6 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 7 | But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’ |
| 8 | Personally , I exercise and run about three times a week , early in the morning . |
| 9 | I mean , we got a dining room that we use about three times a year ! |
| 10 | The usual rule is that the tax is imposed only on income exceeding about three times the average net personal income per worker in the social sector of the given republic or province . |
| 11 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 12 | Stratus Computer Inc has duly expanded its XA/R line of Intel Corp 80860 RISC-based Continuous Processing Systems with nine new models , claiming about 2.5 times the performance of comparably-priced members of the 68000 family-based XA2000 Series ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 14 | With ‘ sleep apnoea ’ ( difficulty in breathing during sleep ) , sufferers literally stop breathing about 400 times a night leading to disrupted slumbers and daytime drowsiness . |
| 15 | Issued about nine times a year to celebrate the richness of life in Britain , they are collected by enthusiasts from every corner of the globe . |
| 16 | In England Sheila Brayford from Staffordshire died from brain damage in 1981 when she absorbed about 100 times the normal level of aluminium in dialysis . |
| 17 | I favour a 1in roughing gouge for this operation , kept well sharpened and with the bevel rubbing it is safe , fast and very little sanding is required : you also have about four times the cutting edge available compared to a half inch bowl gouge , more time between re-grinds . |