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n. 时代（time的复数）；[数] 次数

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Times are so tough that even bosses are taking pay cuts.

Hard times breed hard feelings

Times change, and corporations change with them.

In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does.

An Indiana University study found that interracial roommates were three times as likely as two white roommates to no longer live together by the end of the semester.

In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye – the only black student on his freshman year floor -said that "if you're surrounded by whites, you have something to prove.

They don't have time to read a chapter three or four times.

Moreover, Americans eat out nearly four times a week on average.

The woman had been fined many times before.

"There's a mountain of evidence 34 proving the importance of sex influences at all levels of brain function," he told The Seattle times.

A new study finds that McDonald's posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted 15 years ago.

At other times the cow wandered around the 526 acre park and the artificial grass field normally used for human sporting events.

At times, these breaks and transitions will be self-determined, at others they will be forced as existing roles, firms, or industries cease to exist.

Banks and car manufacturers are glad for the extra business in tough economic times.

But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.

Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion, and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times or forget to follow up as a result.

Clarke and her colleagues introduced bacteria to floor tiles (瓷砖) and then placed cookies on the tiles for varying times.

During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you've visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong.

girls who graduate from single-sex schools are three times more likely to become engineers than those who attend coeducational schools.

Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times.

Potato chips in Japan are being sold for 6 times their normal price.

Several times a month, you can find a doctor in the aisles of Ralph's market in Huntington Beach, California, wearing a white coat and helping people learn about food.

Sometimes, Jody feels that she succeeds in persuading some students to stop dieting; other times, she feels that she fails.

The other surveys asked about times when subjects had themselves called someone close to them by the wrong name.

These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea.

This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the EU.

This is only at certain times and on condition that they are processed at factories based near Japanese ports.

This is particularly crucial in the case of meat production, where beef uses about 50 times more water than vegetables.

Researchers in one study in Tokyo found that more than half of junior high school students used their phones to exchange e-mails with schoolmates more than 10 times a day

Researchers studying teenagers in Israel concluded that, in that hazardous environment, mobile phones were regarded as "security objects" in parent-teen relationships―important because they provided the possibility ofcontact and communication at all times.

This isn't a lament (伤感) - or not merely a lament - for bygone times.

It is no longer important in modern times

Why do consumers, businesses and investors retreat and panic in times of depression?

For more than 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a year-often for no longer than three days-to a Benedictine hermitage（修道院）,40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn.

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.

in one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less times chatting with the other patrons and more time working.

Unfortunately, most of the early popular African-American writers have been all but forgotten in modern times until now.

The number of times of repeating the process.

Fazio's Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates.

At Jackson's trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway

It has kept many traditions from Victorian times.

They have seen this many times in old films.

Juan's roommate stopped him four times.

"Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet," wrote Tony Schwartz in New York times.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn't otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

According to a report, Google's self-driving cars clocked 1, 023, 3 km, and required human intervention 124 times.

According to the International Business times, electric car sales are expected to increase as Volkswagen is still recovering from its emissions scandal.

As careers and vocations become less available during times of recession, adolescents may be especially hard hit.

As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email.

At other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them.

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

Claer Barrett, the editor of financial times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; It has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Further complicating my college search was a flourishing track career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren't quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.

Grass-fed milk can fetch up to 2.5 times the price of conventional milk.

Have you ever had someone try to explain something to you a dozen times with no luck?

In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry.

In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does.

In fact, cost sharing could be a very practical solution, especially in times of financial difficulty.

In planting and harvest times one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry.

Leadership of the planning corporation has changed hands nearly as many times as the opening date has been pushed back.

Lots of people swear they can absorb new information more efficiently at some times of the day than at others.

Machines can't handle things they haven't seen many times before.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

One 2013 study of college students found that 80% of students use their phones or laptops during class, with the average student checking their digital device 11 times in a typical class.

She says she is able to take Zumba exercise classes three times a week, work out on the treadmill(跑步机), and take long, brisk walks.

She suggests downloading the Instant or Moment apps to see how many times you turn on your phone each day.

Such difficult economic times may leave many adolescents confused about their roles in society.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry

That person then drinks from the cup and raises it high, saying "Harambee!" which means "Let's all pull together!" All repeat "Harambee!" seven times and each person drinks from the cup.

The average person turns on their phone 150 times every day.

The large base he leads resembles a snowed-in college campus on holiday break, with the capacity to sleep more than 10 times the 13 people who were staying on through the Antarctic winter.

The Los Angeles times reports that the industry is in the midst of an intense increase in cash flow.

The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost year round that people eat many times a day.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.

When looking at how women are depicted, the study found female characters were four times more likely to be shown in sexy clothing, and nearly four times as likely to be referred to as physically attractive.

You can do this by learning a set number of lines of poetry at different times of the day and seeing when most lines stick.

A few times each year, an inspector arrived to look over the entire light station.

A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

Approximate travel times: windermere-20 minutes, Kendal-25 minutes, Lancaster-45 minutes, Manchester-1 hour 30 minutes.

Creating products out of raw materials creates much more waste material, up to 100 times more, than the material contained in the finished products.

Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses.

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

He found that science amazed times' readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others.

Her times were not exactly impressive, but even so, he sensed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking.

I carefully extended a long carrot, with a keen eye on those teeth, and before long, there were times I would have the groundhog sitting next to a rabbit, both munching on carrots.

I suppose about two or three times a week.

I wish I knew the times of the trains to London.

If we thought Dad's pile of chicken manure was bad, this was 10 times worse.

If you take the medicine more than three times a week, you may get a rebound headache, which is far more severe than tension headaches.

In a study describing the technology, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word "touch" four times using the smart keyboard.

In modern times, when food is available in grocery stores, finding love is more central to people's lives.

In the new trial, which will be launched from April 18, one of three "up" escalators will be standing only, with a second banning walking at peak times.

It has done it many times before.

It restarts several times within an hour, and I can't save what I have typed.

It was a scene that had been repeated many times in the theater's 75-year history.

It's also important to know how to avoid daydreams for those times when you really need to concentrate.

It's been tested on mice for ten times.

Keep it safe at all times, and then you will not have any unpleasant accident, which could ruin your whole weekend.

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going.

One should learn to enjoy hard times.

One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.

Our generation once joined hands and stood firm at times of national emergency.

Peter have rung six times, representing the passing of winter, the pile is lit.

Reading habits change with the times.

Some immigrant advocates worry that as hard financial times make it more difficult for natives to keep jobs, such measures will become more a vehicle for intolerance than integration.

That's 219kg of steel-more tan a fifth of a ton and more than 40 times the cat's weight.

The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole.

The move, imitating a similar structure in far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times.

There are times when your heart is not in your work.

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

Those who had done the most boyhood activities were twice as likely to have warm relations with a wide variety of people, five times as likely to be well paid and 16 times less likely to have been unemployed.

To avoid missing the last train, please check the last train times posted in the station.

Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times.

We would see each other at various times and became friends.

Without the glaciers, water will arrive in the rivers at times when it can damage crops.

"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

"When Dr.Epley and Mr.Schoreder asked other people in the same train station to predict how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their ride would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," the New York times summarizes.

A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.

And if Peretti were in charge at the times?

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some times readers as faint praise.

Certainly, it's incredibly hard to maintain patience at all times with your children.

Consider the fruit-fly experiments described by Carl zimmer in the Science times.

firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.

Hard times may hold you down at what usually seems like the most inopportune time, but you should remember that they won't last forever.

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

In fact, all of these cultural developments occurred separately at different times in many parts of the world.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a to

It might also be hard for airlines to coordinate the departure times and destinations of passenger aircraft in a way that would allow them to gain from formation flight.

More difficult, in the moment, is discerning precisely how these lean times are affecting society's character.

Parents don't have to be exquisitely present at all times, but there needs to be a balance and parents need to be responsive and sensitive to a child's verbal or nonverbal expressions of an emotional need.

Peretti says the times shouldn't waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

Runners range from four year old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

Sometimes it is easy to feel bad because you are going through tough times.

The 17th and 18th centuries were times of radical change and curiosity.

The research of till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise woul

There will eventually come a day when The New York times ceases to publish stories on newsprint.

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

We will have to wait and see exactly how these hard times will reshape our social fabric.