Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] three time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floors of the church and schoolroom to be washed out when needed and not less than three times a year . |
| 2 | It was a Follis of Maximinianus , who was Emperor no less than three times . |
| 3 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Chaired by Michael Julien , it meets not less than three times annually to review the adequacy of the Group 's systems of internal control including those concerning the Group 's pension arrangements , the scope and findings of the external and internal auditors ' work , the half and full year financial statements prior to their submission to the Board , and the application of the Group 's accounting policies and any changes to financial reporting requirements . |
| 5 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 6 | During the year 1976 the highest level of enthusiasm for family planning endured , more than 8 million sterilisations were reported , more than three times the number in the preceding year … these meant a nearly 50% increase in the proportion of Indian couples estimated to be protected by modern contraception achieved within a matter of months . |
| 7 | In fact Boy had never done it more than three times with anybody . |
| 8 | In fact , timber felling grew to such proportions that a law was passed restricting it ; anyone found guilty of contravening this law more than three times , could be hung . |
| 9 | The current criterion for alert is two readings of more than three times normal background , either successively at the same site or simultaneously at two adjacent sites . |
| 10 | Then followed the era of multiple winners , men who have won the Tour more than three times . |
| 11 | Those people checked by officers on patrol ‘ more than three times in 28 days are made suspected persons , ’ according to internal Suffolk documents . |
| 12 | The 10–14 year olds are the most at risk group of all , with the under-14 's more than three times as likely as adults to be injured on any particular foot journey . |
| 13 | Up to 88% of district nursing time could be spent on leg ulcer care , as a quarter of clients with ulcerated limbs need visits lasting more than 15 minutes and half require dressings more than three times a week . |
| 14 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 15 | The economy in the South East ( representing 36.3 per cent of UK GDP ) dominates the whole economy and its size is more than three times that of any other region ( refer also to Figure 9.2 ) . |
| 16 | And one Chemical Sales Manager said he increased his company profit on his next deal by more than three times his own salary ! |
| 17 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 18 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 19 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 20 | There are now over 11 million shareholders , more than three times as many as in 1979 . |
| 21 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 22 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |
| 23 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 24 | Despite deindustrialization total exports of manufactured goods increased substantially : by 1983 they were more than three times their level in the late 1940s and almost twice their average during the 1960s . |
| 25 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
| 26 | If someone punches in the wrong code more than three times , the alarm sounds automatically . |
| 27 | For example , the number of women suffering from arthritis is more than three times that of men . |
| 28 | Why can publishers sell many more copies of some hardback novels in Australia , with a population of 17 million , than in the UK , with more than three times the population ? |
| 29 | This was more than three times the normal fare , and the astonished Annamese stood between the shafts of his vehicle staring after Joseph in amazement until he and Chuck disappeared inside the palace . |
| 30 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |