Example sentences of "[num] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the expected FEV 1 for height and age were 1.5 l and the expected birth weight 3300 g the difference in their expected FEV 1 would be 0.026 l ; this difference would increase to 0.031 l for a lower gestational age with an expected birth weight of 2700 g . |
| 2 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 3 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 4 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 5 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 6 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 7 | By falling 27 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority the House ensured that Bush maintained his record of never having had a veto overturned . |
| 8 | In an experiment carried out by Anthony Arak , a zoologist from Cambridge University , the large calling male was removed from ten groups ; in eight cases the other group members dispersed . |
| 9 | In all eight cases the diarrhoea continued for over 21 days , in five it persisted for more than three months . |
| 10 | Across the Atlantic , the Boston Herald described the price of $95 million — 1.8 times the book value on 31 January — as ‘ a little expensive but worthwhile to Citizens . ’ |
| 11 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 12 | The net electrical output from the plant 's four units is 3498 megawatts — enough to supply 4.5 times the present power demand of Gothenburg , Sweden 's second-largest city . |
| 13 | The underlying balance-of-payments problems stemmed essentially from the scale of government overseas expenditure and foreign investment , these amounting to more than eight times the aggregate current account deficit for 1946–50 ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 14 | The highest values have been recorded at Holme Moss in the Pennines ( 43kg/S/ha , eight times the level ) and at a site in Galloway with 31.4kg/S/ha . |
| 15 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |
| 16 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
| 17 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
| 18 | Gold is pretty heavy , being six to eight times the , weight of the gravels , and it follows a certain line down the riverbed . |
| 19 | ‘ Draw ’ large circles eight times one way , and eight times the other . |
| 20 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 21 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 22 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 23 | Georges Bookshop in Bristol sold 762 copies during the signing and 70 copies the following day . |
| 24 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 25 | The total weight of fine sediment undergoing analysis is fifty times the sediment extracted in the initial ( 58 s ) sample . |
| 26 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 27 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 28 | Within fifty years of the fall of Karak Eight Peaks the Dwarfs have lost all of their major holds south of Karaz a Karak with the exception of Karak Azul , which is under constant siege . |
| 29 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 30 | Nationally the Liberals , chaired by David Moorish and boasting a logo that resembles something from the side of a soap powder box , will field around 70 candidates the next nearest is in Leeds . |