four times
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1.0
- adverb
:
cuatro veces
- Most voters were required to cast ballots four times between November 1989 and November 1990.
- four times as likely
- four times more
- four times as
And the Titanic was four times larger than the largest ferry.
- And the Titanic was four times larger than the largest ferry.
- But what you should know is it's offering four times better drop protection.
- Because olive oil burns at four times the intensity of fish oil.
- But I've speed all of these songs four times, which means that they are four times higher frequency.
- The living wage would be about four times that.
- Well, the risk is Blackwell chips could do it with four times fewer chips.
Examples
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He makes four times what I do.
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Teachers read the target book four times per week, whereas caregivers read the target book twice per week.
Academic text (2015) -
It's not same as three times or four times or N times.
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I mean, it is interesting, but doing it four times a day, you know?
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Last year they sold almost four times that number.
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Repeat that four times at least once a week.
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I'll pay you four times what it's worth.
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And his corn yields are four times what his dad got.
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At 20 centimeters, telescopes pick up four times as many objects as at 6 centimeters.
Academic text (1996) -
He makes four times what I do.
Synonyms
How Many Times
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'by a factor of four / on four occasions' is directly compositional from 'four' (the number) + 'times' (multiplicity/frequency or multiplication), so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. This numeric+multiplicative construction is a routine, cross-linguistically common pattern and follows standard English usage, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Four times comes from the simple idea of doing something four separate times: four is the number and times shows repetition or 'multiply'. Imagine one apple becoming four apples, so the amount is four times bigger and it means 'by a factor of four'.