Example sentences of "about [adj] times [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMANAGE to do it about eight times a year . |
| 2 | On average , young puppies may relieve themselves about six times a day . |
| 3 | In the case of Cygnus X-1 , this is about six times the mass of the sun , which , according to Chandrasekhar 's result , is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf . |
| 4 | The transverse width is about six times the height , and their length may be 80 km ( so miles ) or more . |
| 5 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Malik used those very words about three times every day . |
| 7 | So erm but that 's only about three times a year at the most . |
| 8 | I mean , we got a dining room that we use about three times a year ! |
| 9 | ‘ When he said he had been mugged , they said that sort of thing happened there about three times a day . ’ |
| 10 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | yeah , they need walking about three times a day do n't they ? |
| 13 | Personally , I exercise and run about three times a week , early in the morning . |
| 14 | ‘ About three times a week . |
| 15 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | The report concluded that there had consequently been a major increase in defaults and arrears during 1990 , with some $85,000 million of interest and capital repayment outstanding at the end of the year , about three times the level recorded in 1985 . |
| 18 | Motorola rates the new board at 70 Specmarks on the Specmark89 benchmark , which reflects both integer and floating point performance — about three times the performance of the comparable 88100-based MVME187 board . |
| 19 | On the basis of its dispersion measure of 75.68cm -3 pc , its distance is 1.5kpc , about three times the distance to the Vela pulsar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The arm length is about three times the disk diameter . |
| 22 | If you use this method you will need a generous amount of fabric , about three times the width of the wall . |
| 23 | Since the front of a slug travels downstream at about three times the speed of the rear ( Fig. 18.7 ) , there can be substantial variations in the fraction of the flow that is turbulent ( Fig. 18.8 ) and thus in the flow rate . |
| 24 | The cost of forest loss through sulphur pollution is about three times the amount dedicated to controlling air pollution by European political leaders . |
| 25 | It is interesting to not that the values achieved in 1989 were broadly at about three times the turnover seen in these outlets , whereas today , a multiplier of approximately one , to one and a quarter times turnover , is far more appropriate . |
| 26 | The figure of 125 million photocells is about 5,000 times the number of separately resolvable points in a good-quality magazine photograph . |
| 27 | It contracts about seventy times a minute pumping blood around our body . |
| 28 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 29 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 30 | This probably explains why male dunnocks copulate with such extraordinary frequency — about ten times a day . |