Example sentences of "of [adj] time [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is trading ahead of this time last year , when sales were hit by the Gulf war , but exports are slowing . |
| 2 | This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income . |
| 3 | Portman also has a maximum of three times first income , but pegs its second income multiplier to 1.25 times . |
| 4 | However , the loss of family credit and housing benefit ensures that some poor working families face a marginal tax rate of three times this level . |
| 5 | Educationally disappointing and commercially disastrous , Domesday sold probably sold little more than a 1,000 units against a forecast of many times this figure . |
| 6 | But a cut of ten times that amount in the whole world 's output of carbon dioxide , shared among all countries , would not only cost Britain far less : it would bring bigger benefits in climate stability . |
| 7 | They argued contentiously that high unemployment might cause mature entry rates to fall , ‘ perhaps because potential entrants would prefer to retain their existing employment rather than risk unemployment following a spell of full time higher education . ’ |
| 8 | Since higher education is currently exam oriented and likely to remain so even under SCOTCATS it is recommended that SCOTVEC and institutions of higher education jointly undertake an urgent review of modular certificates in order to discover ways in which these could be made to relate more effectively to the demands of full time higher education . |
| 9 | PJ , who cost £350 at three months , is already worth upwards of five times that amount . |
| 10 | Some rivers may contain 200–300 mg/1. normally , with peak figures of several times this level . |
| 11 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 12 | First , under an approved share option scheme overseas participants are restricted to shares under option up to a maximum of £100 000 value ( UK resident participants are not restricted to £100 000 value and are eligible for the grant of options over shares up to an aggregate value of four times annual remuneration ) . |