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SIX TIMES
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By a factor of six
Example:
the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills
Synonyms:
six times; sixfold
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Context examples:
The first day I went over Mansfield Wood, and Edmund took the copses beyond Easton, and we brought home six brace between us, and might each have killed six times as many, but we respect your pheasants, sir, I assure you, as much as you could desire.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
At this moment, perhaps, Mr. Elton is shewing your picture to his mother and sisters, telling how much more beautiful is the original, and after being asked for it five or six times, allowing them to hear your name, your own dear name.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
People who smoked between one and 10 cigarettes a day had over six times the risk of dying from respiratory diseases than never smokers and about one and half times the risk of dying of cardiovascular disease than never smokers.
(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)
Yet I fear that we do not get much credit for it here in England, Stone, where they light the windows for a great battle, but they do not understand that it is easier for us to fight the Nile six times over, than to keep our station all winter in the blockade.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dr Željko Pedišić, the first author of the research from Victoria University in Australia, said: Any running is probably good for your health and you can achieve those benefits by running even just once a week or running 50 minutes a week, but that shouldn’t discourage those who run more than that amount, who maybe enjoy running three times a week or six times a week.
(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Located 226 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, the planet lies in a stellar system known as K2-288, which contains a pair of dim, cool M-type stars separated by about 5.1 billion miles (8.2 billion kilometers) - roughly six times the distance between Saturn and the Sun.
(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)
Here and there a brief remark was appended to a date, usually no more than a single word: double occurring perhaps six times in a total of several hundred entries; and once very early in the list and followed by several marks of exclamation, total failure!!!
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As it was impossible, however, now to prevent their coming, Lady Middleton resigned herself to the idea of it, with all the philosophy of a well-bred woman, contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject five or six times every day.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I walked with intrepidity five or six times before the very head of the cat, and came within half a yard of her; whereupon she drew herself back, as if she were more afraid of me: I had less apprehension concerning the dogs, whereof three or four came into the room, as it is usual in farmers’ houses; one of which was a mastiff, equal in bulk to four elephants, and another a greyhound, somewhat taller than the mastiff, but not so large.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And as for this necklace, I do not suppose I have worn it six times: it is very pretty, but I never think of it; and though you would be most heartily welcome to any other in my trinket-box, you have happened to fix on the very one which, if I have a choice, I would rather part with and see in your possession than any other.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
