Example sentences of "a thousand time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 2 | Has n't anyone told Mrs Thatcher that bottled water can cost a thousand times as much as water from the tap ? |
| 3 | ‘ You must not do it , Jamie , we 'll be in trouble with Colonel James , I 've told all you boys a thousand times . ’ |
| 4 | Tho' Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem is born |
| 5 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 6 | He himself had been unsettled to find a note and a feather placed in his room , but this was a thousand times worse . |
| 7 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 8 | I have asked myself this question a thousand times , a hundred thousand times . |
| 9 | Mark you , if the atmosphere at the venue is good , you can expand the outreach of your message a thousand times by television broadcast or closed circuit television relays to other venues . |
| 10 | ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination . |
| 11 | By 1958 , both the United States and the Soviet Union had carried out test explosions with single bombs at least a thousand times more deadly . |
| 12 | The most intensely radioactive is high-level waste — typically a thousand times more potent than the intermediate level . |
| 13 | The bells here are famous ; the clarion , ‘ We Greet Thee a Thousand Times ’ which is rung at midday was created by the clockmaker , P. Naumann in 1694 . |
| 14 | May God 's punishment be a thousand times worse on you than the harm that you have done to Hector . ’ |
| 15 | It was a song she had known since she was a child and she 'd heard her mother sing it a thousand times . |
| 16 | From his knowledge of ‘ Romances , & Relations of Giants & Magicians , & Genii ’ , his mind was soon ‘ habituated to the Vast ’ , and when , walking home to Ottery one winter evening , his father told him the names of the stars ‘ and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world — and that the other twinkling stars were Suns that had worlds rolling round them ’ , Coleridge listened with profound delight , ‘ but without the least mixture of wonder or incredulity ’ . |
| 17 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 18 | Bathed in batter , soaked in suds and covered in clay — ‘ ambushed ’ a thousand times by Sooty and his scheming friends , Sweep and Soo ! |
| 19 | Among them were a 100-kg man and , a thousand times lighter , a 100-g quail . |
| 20 | For example , polonium-210 concentrates at least a thousand times in fresh fish and more in shellfish . |
| 21 | ‘ Now that it 's illegal , ’ he said , coughing , ‘ it 's worth a thousand times what it used to fetch . |
| 22 | I did n't feel pain from the burns any more , but that had been replaced by a pain a thousand times worse . |
| 23 | For Marjorie Wallace , the dream came true , a thousand times over , when she won the Miss World crown . |
| 24 | For all that you 've been in and out of our house a thousand times you do n't know the way they are . ’ |
| 25 | In fact the possession of a high work of fracture — at least a thousand times higher than the free surface energy — is an essential characteristic of all safe and practical structural materials which are used in tension . |
| 26 | He had heard this request a thousand times . |
| 27 | Constance , who felt that he had said this a thousand times before , usually shrugged impatiently . |
| 28 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 29 | Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller . |
| 30 | In the host mud , there was only a trace of PLTE at the minimum detectable limit and there was roughly a thousand times less PLDE than PLFA ( Table 1 ) . |