Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
| 2 | He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded . |
| 3 | A day after his wife , Hillary , spoke out against profiteering by vaccine makers , Mr Clinton said the industry 's profits were rising four times faster than those of an average major company . |
| 4 | Otherwise , the tolerant British public is paying three times over for its cheap food ; once in the shops , twice in its taxes , thrice in its support of the common agricultural policy 's dumping practices . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 6 | Exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 7 | Yes , this is another big problem I think you put that very well , that people forget , of course , that in clinical psychoan analysis the analyst has a vast amount of data , because the patient is going five times a week , or in Freud 's case , six times a week , for fifty minutes every day , six days a week , nine months of the year , often for several years and er , the , the sheer amount of data that the analyst gets , is absolutely immense . |
| 8 | ‘ A worldwide recession is no excuse for these disastrous figures , unemployment is rising four times as fast in the UK as in the rest of Europe . |
| 9 | UNEMPLOYMENT in oil-rich Grampian is rising three times faster than in the rest of Scotland , a report by regional economists revealed yesterday . |
| 10 | Doubtless Williams is getting five times the salary of everyone else in the movie — but that 's fair : he 's playing five roles . |
| 11 | Tests show he 's carrying ten times the acceptable level of mercury . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's earning four times too much for doing half the job . ’ |
| 13 | It was , however , a losing battle : by the turn of the century the Solvay process was producing six times as much soda as the Leblanc . |
| 14 | According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large . |
| 15 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 16 | And one was striking one time and the other one the other . |