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FOUR TIMES
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By a factor of four
Example:
the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years
Synonyms:
four times; fourfold
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Context examples:
Four times as long as the Grand Canyon, and twice as deep in places, these faults and canyons indicate a titanic geological upheaval in Charon’s past.
(Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History, NASA)
Then he neighed three or four times, but in so different a cadence, that I almost began to think he was speaking to himself, in some language of his own.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I have been beaten four times—three times by men, and once by a woman.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the all conquering Tudor had danced four times with Amy at a late party and only once with May—that was thorn number two.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Adenovirus-36 is found four times more often among the obese than in patients of a healthy weight.
(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Four times per day.
(Four Times Daily, NCI Thesaurus)
At an average age of 8.1 years, children born to mothers with high lead levels were more than four times as likely to be overweight or obese than children born to mothers with low lead levels.
(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)
It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun — the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster and the first found by directly detecting its gravitational pull.
(Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster, ESO)
The research shows people with the highest levels of obesity are running a high risk of a range of serious illnesses and premature death, with 12 times the risk of type 2 diabetes, 22 times the risk of sleep apnoea and nearly four times the risk of heart failure compared to those who are of normal weight.
(Middle Age Severely Obese People More Likely to Die Early, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
