Example sentences of "[noun] as many " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the first 20 days of May this year , almost four times as many Vietnamese arrived as in all of May 1990 . |
| 32 | The English-speakers have noticed that five times as many people in the Caribbean share many of their preoccupations , but speak other languages . |
| 33 | In Washington , DC , in 1989 nearly four times as many black men were jailed in the district 's prison as graduated from its public schools ; the leading cause of death among young black men is murder . |
| 34 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 35 | There are nearly seven times as many taxpayers in the South East , where the average wage is £17,000 , but Labour 's proposals would sharply increase the tax burden they bear . |
| 36 | France , with four to five times as many people in the late Middle Ages and twice the territory ( when unification was complete ) , consisted of a series of virtually independent and equal principalities — Normandy , Brittany , Burgundy , Gascony , Aquitaine , each capable of entering into dynastic relationships with other powers . |
| 37 | In Britain , three times as many women as men care for elderly or handicapped relatives : most typically women in middle age , but many themselves older . |
| 38 | It was above all grandmothers who came to live with their children in this way : five times as many as grandfathers . |
| 39 | The Chinese have maintained a stable agriculture for 4,000 years and feed more than four times as many people per acre as we do . |
| 40 | A recent survey showed that at peak times as many as 600 vehicles an hour passed through Selborne . |
| 41 | He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded . |
| 42 | The d between service and working class would be much smaller , +0.09 , but we might not want to conclude that the second society displayed smaller class differentials ; after all , ten times as many service as working class children attend selective schools in the latter case , while only three times as many do in the former . |
| 43 | The d between service and working class would be much smaller , +0.09 , but we might not want to conclude that the second society displayed smaller class differentials ; after all , ten times as many service as working class children attend selective schools in the latter case , while only three times as many do in the former . |
| 44 | The private schools are the most select in class terms : almost forty times as many service as working class children attend HMC schools . |
| 45 | The weights were derived from hospital bed utilization rates in each age-sex category ; if , for example , elderly women accounted for three times as many bed-days as middle-aged men , they counted three times as heavily in calculating the weighted population total . |
| 46 | The British Crime Survey showed that there were about four times as many crimes committed each year as the police were ever told about . |
| 47 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 48 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 49 | Consequently double the emission rate and unacceptable concentrations of odour pollutant will persist for double the distance downwind , and , providing the population density remains constant , four times as many people will be subjected to the odour . |
| 50 | But the main interest is in trying to reduce the rate of first heart attacks among middle-aged men prone to CHD ( men have maybe four times as many heart attacks as women ) . |
| 51 | There are 10 times as many men with AIDS every two years , an exponential growth which will obviously continue until a cure is found . |
| 52 | The problem is that calculations of processes in the Sun 's interior suggest that some three times as many neutrinos should reach Earth from the Sun as are in fact detected . |
| 53 | Their calculations of reaction rates in the Sun 's interior imply that there must be at least 10 20 times as many monopoles in the Sun as is possible according to the limits set by the non-detection of monopoles here on Earth . |
| 54 | But why are there three times as many male toads as females coming to breed each season , as all studies of breeding toads have shown ? |
| 55 | Round for round plastic bullets have killed over four times as many people as their rubber predecessors . |
| 56 | Following this clue , they studied the antibody-producing blood cells of young and old people and found that cells made by older people had four times as many plasmids as ‘ young cells ’ ( Nature , vol 301 , P 394 ) . |
| 57 | But this would require three times as many pixels to get the same resolution as monochrome . |
| 58 | According to a game survey recently performed by a group at the Istituto di Zoologia of the University of Rome , Italy 's population of fully wild , feral dogs has exploded to above 80 000 and is fuelled by a pool of perhaps ten times as many stray and free-ranging animals . |
| 59 | In Wales , there are almost three times as many conifers than broadleaves . |
| 60 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |