Example sentences of "[adv] and [num] times [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is 26 light-years away and 52 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is certainly the bluest of the brilliant stars . |
| 2 | Mirphak is an F5-type giant , 620 light-years away and 6000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 3 | Polaris , magnitude 2.0 ( very slightly variable ) is 680 light-years away and 6000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 4 | daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal . |
| 5 | Since then , he has won the world singles three times outdoors and three times indoors , four Commonwealth gold medals , a Commonwealth fours gold , a world indoor triples gold , six world indoor pairs golds and 26 national titles , the singles six times on grass and nine times on carpet . |
| 6 | For successively larger and stronger-growing plants , use J.I. No. 2 or 3 , which contains twice and three times as much respectively of chalk and fertilizer . |