Example sentences of "[num] times around " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the group 's total annual output in biscuits were laid edge to edge , they would stretch twice to the moon and back , or forty-eight times around the equator . |
| 2 | On a more light-hearted note , Gubbio is also known as the ‘ paese dei malti ’ — the town of the mad people — and to qualify as mad you have simply to run three times around the Bargello Fountain . |
| 3 | On the first day , when we all jogged five times around the rehearsal room to warm up , there were many exhausted lungs . |
| 4 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
| 5 | He explained : ‘ We 're not really sure what happened the car cut out four or five times around the circuit in one lap and the only way to keep it going was to mess around with the ignition . |
| 6 | So the ordered structure of the Sun , with its retinue of planets , repeated what was occurring a million times around other similar stars of the same mass and density — what is known as ‘ main sequence ’ stars . |
| 7 | At 7pm he telephoned his brother-in-law Paul Caddick , a police sergeant , and when he arrived , after eventually finding the key to the garage door under a mat , he discovered Paula 's body hanging from a rope which was wrapped four times around a beam . |
| 8 | In the summer of 1883 , from the Sunda Straits between Java and Sumatra , the volcano of Krakatoa suddenly blew eleven cubic miles of ash and rock into the stratosphere , sending a shockwave seven times around the globe . |