Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , within the chorus , the identical music is heard three times : it is , to use Adorno 's phrase , ‘ the same familiar experience ’ that is emphasized ( 1941 : 18 ) . |
| 2 | If there is rivalry between the firms it is forgotten three times a year when Stuart Johnstone , of Smiths , organises a get together of Glasgow booksellers and reps . |
| 3 | A chases B. When B is caught , s/he freezes , eyes closed , counts to 5 , then chases A. The game continues for as long as you want — or to a pre-set time limit , or when somebody is caught three times , for example . |
| 4 | This matter is made ten times easier if there is a will . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that the snail can only perceive events which are more than one quarter of a second apart , so a stick which is moved four times a second appears to be stationary . |
| 6 | Critically ill … jogger is stabbed three times in unprovoked attack . |
| 7 | Each of these exercises is done 35 times . |
| 8 | A weekend course at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire is offered four times a year for about £188 ( including VAT ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They are even repeating the repeats EastEnders , right from the start , is shown three times a day , every day , Terry and June twice , The Goodies once . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | June 1992 , then 7 September and finally 10 September 1992 The opening is postponed three times . |
| 15 | It has a comprehensive index ( Figure 5.3 ) which is reissued four times a year and in the intervening months index supplements are issued . |
| 16 | Around the top panel , the simple guilloche is interlaced only twelve times , while around the bottom panel it is interlaced seventeen times . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | UNEMPLOYMENT in oil-rich Grampian is rising three times faster than in the rest of Scotland , a report by regional economists revealed yesterday . |
| 19 | Doubtless Williams is getting five times the salary of everyone else in the movie — but that 's fair : he 's playing five roles . |
| 20 | If the ‘ Sid ’ allocation is oversubscribed 2.25 times , further shares will be scooped back from domestic institutions . |
| 21 | Each target is attempted five times in Figure 4.10 within a specific time period , usually a week . |
| 22 | The simulation is run 100 times . |
| 23 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 24 | For those who do smoke 25 or more cigarettes a day , the death rate from lung cancer is increased 20 times . |
| 25 | F-WORD IS CHOPPED 30 TIMES FOR TELLY DIE HARD |
| 26 | Sixty police officers have now joined in the hunt for a sex attacker who 's struck nine times . |
| 27 | The 320 watt motor turns the double-bladed cutter block at 15,000rpm , meaning the wood is shaved 30,000 times a minute . |
| 28 | Tests show he 's carrying ten times the acceptable level of mercury . |
| 29 | Charmingly , the verses are written along the edge of a circular piece of paper , which is folded three times to make the shape of a cone . |
| 30 | Each sampled household is surveyed five times at quarterly intervals so that , every month , 1000 new households enter the study and 1000 households leave it . |