Example sentences of "be a [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos you know they 're a million times ahead . |
| 2 | The fact is that they are a million times better than many of the new trainers on the market and a lot harder to find . |
| 3 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 4 | Mentally , they are a hundred times stronger . |
| 5 | The local density in our galaxy could be a million times higher than this figure if primordial black holes were concentrated in the ‘ halo ’ of galaxies — the thin cloud of rapidly moving stars in which each galaxy is embedded — rather than being uniformly distributed throughout the universe . |
| 6 | May God 's punishment be a thousand times worse on you than the harm that you have done to Hector . ’ |
| 7 | Any of them would be a thousand times better than Drummle ! ’ |
| 8 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 9 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 10 | He called it a down-payment and said there could be a hundred times that sum on offer for the right kind of information about Alan Dysart . |
| 11 | Would n't it be a zillion times better to destroy it ? |
| 12 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's a thousand times better than you are ! ’ |
| 14 | No matter how badly designed it is , it 's a thousand times better than what was here before . |
| 15 | that 's a thousand times a roll times a roll one ooh ooh ooh ! |
| 16 | What 's a hundred times that come to ? |
| 17 | It 's seventeen hundred or seven hundred or what 's , what 's a hundred times twenty , is that two hundred ? |
| 18 | It 's a one time thing , it just happened |
| 19 | So it 's a million times minus a million . |
| 20 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 21 | On the water , he 's a 3 time world formula one champion . |
| 22 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 23 | For the Profitboss a company 's marketing effort is a hundred times more than just what the marketing experts do . |
| 24 | The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got . |
| 25 | The risk from natural poisons in foods is a hundred times greater than the perils posed by man-made additives or pesticide residues , claims Dr Roger Fenwick of the Government 's Food Research Institute . |
| 26 | Focusing on revenue is a thousand times more positive and productive than focusing on costs , which can prove debilitating and negative . |
| 27 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 28 | He himself had been unsettled to find a note and a feather placed in his room , but this was a thousand times worse . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |