Example sentences of "times [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | at times I I , er , yeah they 're awful ! |
| 2 | It would seem then that if conditions of work were altered in order to give employees a greater control over such factors as the pace at which they work , and the arrangement of their working day around breaks at times which they feel are necessary , then certain improvements may be achieved . |
| 3 | We are all only too painfully aware of the needs of working people in the difficult times which we face and I know their interests will be uppermost in your minds . |
| 4 | Oh funny thing I was having a look at one of Carrie 's , she 's got the Radio Times which we do n't get , only at Christmas time . |
| 5 | Beside her meagre meal Portia carried a slim black zip-up file case and a copy of the Financial Times which I recognised by its distinctive colour . |
| 6 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 7 | A lot of times a lot of times it it it goes back to normal . |
| 8 | Seventeen add this big number here which is minus one times whatever we 've got in here minus one times ten , what will that give us ? |
| 9 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 10 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 11 | Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are |
| 12 | ‘ We have seen a steady rise with figures just over three times what they were in September for adults seeking advice , ’ Mr. Barnes added . |
| 13 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 14 | Yet , thanks to the cumbersome appeals procedure , each execution currently costs between $2m and $5m , four or five times what it costs to keep someone in prison for life . |
| 15 | ‘ Now that it 's illegal , ’ he said , coughing , ‘ it 's worth a thousand times what it used to fetch . |
| 16 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 17 | Now , with the price of tea nineteen times what it was a year before , the villagers said they drink it just once a day . |
| 18 | So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard . |
| 19 | I will often say ‘ Well this is twice what it should be , or three times what it should be , ’ and decide accordingly as to whether it is serious or not . ’ |
| 20 | It has been estimated that the cratering rate today ( see section 8.1 ) is about 3 times what it was 850 Ma ago , and Figure 6.9 is brought up to today on this basis . |
| 21 | if you have R ten times what it was in the pres the previous one , you 'll now only get a tenth of the current out . |
| 22 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 23 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 24 | Although this probably represented ten times what she would normally expect she displayed no emotion as she accepted it . |
| 25 | It was three times what she 'd been expecting . |
| 26 | This is many times what he would earn as a university graduate in Bangladesh . |
| 27 | Every Zambian citizen now owes his country 's creditors $ 1000 — three times what he earns in one year . |
| 28 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 29 | Even once Cinzia had bullied one of the assistants into offering Zen a discount , the item she had selected came to about three times what he had reckoned to spend , but he paid up . |
| 30 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |