Example sentences of "is [adj] times the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he confirm that last year the Scottish Office spent £2.6 million on advertising alone , which is 10 times the figure for 1979 ? |
| 2 | That is six times the number to be offered the right of abode in the government 's package . |
| 3 | The area between one arch and the base is 3π a ² , which is three times the area of the generating circle . |
| 4 | The internal diameter of these stents is 10 mm , which is three times the diameter of the largest plastic stents . |
| 5 | As the U.S. population is five times the size of Britain 's the U.K. 's reserves are now 2.5 times those of the U.S. on a per capita basis . |
| 6 | With longer hours at work and less investment in safety devices , the frequency of industrial injuries in small firms is twelve times the rate in large firms . |
| 7 | The outermost skin layer of the bottlenose dolphin is replaced every 2 hours , which is nine times the rate of human skin renewal . |
| 8 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 9 | This is four times the number of cases of AIDS actually reported to the WHO ( 501,272 to April 1992 ) . |
| 10 | Right next question is the one where you 're given these two complex numbers , and you 're asked to show the , the modules of Z one squared is two times the modules of Z two squared . |
| 11 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |