Example sentences of "three times the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Dodd , who had attempted to bring more amphetamine use under control , argued that Hoffman-La Roche ‘ paid a Washington law firm three times the annual budget of the Senate subcommittee staff to assure that their drugs would remain uncontrolled ’ ( Graham 1972 : 22 ) . |
| 2 | Levi ( 1987 ) found that commercial fraud recorded by the London fraud squads represented nearly three times the total cost of all property crimes in London , and that 40 per cent of companies in the survey reported at least one fraud costing over 50,000 . |
| 3 | It was estimated that annual defence spending by developing countries totalled around US$170,000 million , or 5 per cent of their combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and more than three times the total value of aid transfers from the industrialized world . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it was noted that the mean delivery time for all early and rare items supplied was , at forty minutes , more than three times the overall average of twelve minutes recorded for ‘ ordinary ’ books . |
| 5 | London has three times the national percentage of GPs over 65 , twice the proportion of single-handed GPs and a higher incidence of large lists . |
| 6 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |