Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing . |
| 2 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 3 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 4 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 5 | Pregnant women who smoke marijuana also place their children at risk ; they are five times more likely to have deformed or underweight babies than the average . |
| 6 | And if they are from Yorkshire , they are five times less likely than most women to wear knickers underneath . |
| 7 | How does one decide whether company directors are functionally more important than their workers , and if they receive five times as much as workers , does this mean they are five times more important ? |
| 8 | ‘ They are ten times easier to deal with today than they were six months ago , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 9 | Molecule for molecule , they are 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and it has been estimated that if production is not checked they will rival carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas in the twenty-first century . |
| 10 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 11 | They are three times more likely than older men to be living alone and only half as likely to have a spouse . |
| 12 | The Tests themselves have been carefully scrutinized for balance and consistency to ensure they are reliable time and time again . |
| 13 | All right , I thought ; yes , it 's womanish to go to him , but they 're poor times , and maybe an astrologer 's a rug to put over you when you 're wintering . |
| 14 | They 're three times thicker than most other wipes , and big enough to cover a whole grown-up hand . |
| 15 | Erm , Erm , a , a , no , not really , they 're qualifying times , erm , |
| 16 | So they 're difficult times . |
| 17 | But if they were strange times for us , I can hardly imagine what they were like for my mother . |
| 18 | They were worrying times . |
| 19 | ‘ It was bloodthirsty but the violence was handled well — after all , they were violent times . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They were terrible times . |
| 21 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 22 | As Elizabeth Roberts has remarked , older women will refer to the hardness of their lot as young wives and in the same breath claim that ‘ they were good times ’ . |
| 23 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 24 | Job vacancies are still 10,000 lower than they were this time last year . |
| 25 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 26 | It was hard work but they were happy times . |
| 27 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 28 | They were bad times , they used to stop . |
| 29 | They were difficult times for all of them . |
| 30 | Of the recent English titles issued , most ( 94% ) had been acquired by copyright deposit , but although the proportion of English titles which had been purchased was small ( 4% ) , in numerical terms they were three times as numerous as non-English purchases . |