Example sentences of "[subord] [num] times [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This is because his opponents in Congress set the rules and can change them whenever they want ; Congress amended the constitution more than 300 times during 1992 . |
2 | Those people checked by officers on patrol ‘ more than three times in 28 days are made suspected persons , ’ according to internal Suffolk documents . |
3 | The report found that groundwater next to one of the two waste dumps at the centre contained chemical levels more than 220 times above those permitted by European Community . |
4 | THE All Ireland schools ' finals take place tomorrow at the Baldoyle Centre in Dublin , and Coleraine Inst , who represent Ulster in the senior boys event , have had outstanding success since the early 80s winning the Irish title no less than nine times since 1980 . |
5 | In real terms , it expanded by more than twelve times between 1973 and 1984 , increasing from a low point of 0.16 per cent of GDP to 0.90 per cent . |
6 | I have probably discussed it less than five times in twelve years with the straits . |
7 | This happened no fewer than four times between 1974 and 1977 until , finally , at the end of 1977 , the Secretary of State announced that instead of the 75,000 to 85,000 places indicated in the 1972 White Paper , the target would be 45,000 . |
8 | BAD : The only serious wobble of the campaign followed the appearance of Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman , on BBC television 's Election Call programme when he appeared to contradict or amend party policy no fewer than four times in less than an hour . |
9 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
10 | Monitoring of air pollution has shown that levels of certain pollutants in up to 20 Russian towns are as much as ten times above permitted maximums . |