Example sentences of "a hundred time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 2 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 3 | or a hundred times , or kissed it |
| 4 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 5 | We need to get between ten and a hundred times lower ’ . |
| 6 | Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ? |
| 7 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 8 | On the last count alone , Jerry Lee Lewis has justified his status a hundred times over in the past few days . |
| 9 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And if he excites himself — distrust him a hundred times more . |
| 12 | Further in the future , laser light looks set to replace electricity itself , driving computers a hundred times faster than the fastest now available . |
| 13 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 16 | They had to write it out a hundred times to remember it . |
| 17 | I used to think it bad enough parting from you , but now I feel it a hundred times worse . |
| 18 | By the time ‘ Chronic Diseases ’ had been published , Hahnemann had decided that the remedy should be not only succussed but also diluted before repetition , and he formulated the fifty millesimal scale , in which we have both more succussion ( one hundred times instead of ten times ) and greater dilution ( fifty thousand times instead of a hundred times as in the centesimal scale ) . |
| 19 | Thus in each potency the remedy 's strength becomes a hundred times five hundred , which is one fifty-thousandth of the previous potency : hence the term fifty millesimal potency . |
| 20 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 21 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 22 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 23 | They squealed with delight as though they had n't heard it a hundred times before . |
| 24 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 25 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 26 | The energy emitted by a quasar can exceed the total output of an ordinary galaxy a hundred times over . |
| 27 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 28 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 29 | In 1976 , despite coverage a hundred times greater than can be achieved by conventional flash photography ( which is limited by back scatter ) , no results were achieved in three months of work . |
| 30 | With one of the pair in orbit , the interferometer swings around much more rapidly — reducing the time required for observing each source — and the separation is not limited by the size of the Earth : present technology permits a radio telescope in an orbit a hundred times larger , improving the resolution a hundredfold over that possible from Earth |