Example sentences of "[noun sg] about [num] times [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |
| 2 | From an initial " rate " of sexual intercourse about five times a week , this had reduced to twice . |
| 3 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 4 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 5 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 6 | The energy released will create sufficient pressure to support the star against its own gravity , giving rise to an object with a radius about five times the radius of the sun . |
| 7 | At present , subsidies to owner-occupiers in terms of mortgage interest tax relief and capital gains tax forgone on owner-occupied dwellings amount to £5 billion per annum : a sum about four times the total spent on National Health Service hospital buildings — i.e. capital spending ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7.33 ) . |
| 8 | Recently I have increased the pump speed to 2 so that I have a higher turnover of water through the filter At this setting it will be turning over the content of the vat about 8 times an hour . |