Example sentences of "[num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 2 | Lloyd captained West Indies 74 times , winning 36 and losing just 12 , and he twice won the Prudential World Cup . |
| 3 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 4 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 5 | She progressed eventually to the title role , playing it 500 times . |
| 6 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 7 | Every year there are 500 times as many alcohol- and tobacco-related deaths as there are deaths related to the use of illegal drugs . |
| 8 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 9 | Even if she is an overpaid brat in danger of losing her marbles , at least she provokes a reaction , and is 500 times more controversial than Madonna . |
| 10 | It is well over 1000 light-years away , and it is at least 500 times as luminous as the Sun , but its surface is very cool for a normal star — hence the crimson colour . |
| 11 | Al Nath is a bluish-white star , almost 500 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 12 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 13 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 15 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 16 | The line of typists would reach right round the Earth 500 times . |
| 17 | However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured . |
| 18 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 19 | We estimate that the dissociation time for distamycin at 4°C ( <10 s ) must be at least 500 times faster than that of actinomycin under similar conditions . |
| 20 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 21 | Parish and Peacock ( 1954 ) calculated that twice as much was spent per capita by the five major social services on pensioners as on children , and three-and-a-half times as much as on the active population . |
| 22 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 23 | For example , the spring 1990 Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) , which enumerates women who would like a job and are available for work , includes almost three-and-a-half times as many women as the monthly claimant count and puts the figure of female unemployment at about I million higher than the claimant count . |
| 24 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 25 | In the secondary sector the disparities were even wider with the richest schools having thirty-seven times as much additional income as the poorest . |
| 26 | But interest payments were a healthy six times covered and the final dividend , payable on June 1 , inches ½p up to 13.4p for a total of 20p , 1.8 times covered . |
| 27 | Across the Atlantic , the Boston Herald described the price of $95 million — 1.8 times the book value on 31 January — as ‘ a little expensive but worthwhile to Citizens . ’ |
| 28 | We evaluated as many young boys as young girls for constipation , but twice as many boys than girls had soiling at follow up , while 1.8 times more girls than boys were still constipated or receiving laxatives for constipation at follow up . |
| 29 | While storage systems for other computing markets can provide comparable numbers of I/Os a second , the size of these I/Os are typically 512 bytes or 128 times smaller than Gen 4's I/O size , Maximum says . |
| 30 | The effort was rewarded with the discovery last August of the faint smudge ( 7,000 times fainter than Pluto ) which he and Jane Luu tagged 1992QB 1 ( they later named it Smiley , after le Carré 's spy ) . |