Example sentences of "[noun] about [num] times [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Malik used those very words about three times every day .
2 Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren .
3 From an initial " rate " of sexual intercourse about five times a week , this had reduced to twice .
4 They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it .
5 Some stronger women carry at least 170 pounds about 24 times a day , meaning 4080 pounds per day , & sometimes as much as 2 tons !
6 To produce this characteristic sound , air has to be interrupted by the contraction of the laryngeal muscles about thirty times a second .
7 but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages
8 The energy released will create sufficient pressure to support the star against its own gravity , giving rise to an object with a radius about five times the radius of the sun .
9 At present , subsidies to owner-occupiers in terms of mortgage interest tax relief and capital gains tax forgone on owner-occupied dwellings amount to £5 billion per annum : a sum about four times the total spent on National Health Service hospital buildings — i.e. capital spending ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7.33 ) .
10 Recently I have increased the pump speed to 2 so that I have a higher turnover of water through the filter At this setting it will be turning over the content of the vat about 8 times an hour .
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