But, as a pair of sneakers becomes three or four lined up near the door, the drawer of shorts overfills, and the costs of gym memberships, race fees, G.P.S. watches, and various other gear and gizmos add up, running reveals itself to be not so different from the other commodified athletic hobbies out there.
Mr Danos of the Tuck business school, believes that the Big Four should be forced in some way to become six or eight firms, by government mandate if necessary.
When they become twelve or thirteen, kids often stop reading seriously.
In industrialized countries, eczema has become two or three times more common in recent decades.
But respect for the 300,000 people who voted for them demands that we accept the necessity of dialogue, before these 300,000 become two or three times as many.
Knowing that Chris Ofili had travelled from Trinidad, I wanted to devise a way for one or two frames to become one or two rolls, at least, provided Sidibé felt up to it.
So nine years after Dr. Srivastava first collected three-banded panther worms from a marine pond in Bermuda, she had figured out how one worm could become two or three, outside the traditional processes of reproduction.
For a lot of people it's easy to drift - for two weeks of relaxation to become four, or six, or even longer and suddenly you're spending three months of the new year trying to get back to where you were in September.
As someone who saw the play twice on Broadway — six happy hours that might have easily become nine or twelve — and recommended it to anyone within earshot, I feel compelled to defend the play (and that Pulitzer) to moviegoers who are probably thinking, Huh?
