Example sentences of "[num] times as many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year there are 500 times as many alcohol- and tobacco-related deaths as there are deaths related to the use of illegal drugs . |
| 2 | For example , the spring 1990 Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) , which enumerates women who would like a job and are available for work , includes almost three-and-a-half times as many women as the monthly claimant count and puts the figure of female unemployment at about I million higher than the claimant count . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Between 1957 and 1967 eight times as many such collections appeared as in the previous decade , and thereafter the flow continued , if at a slower rate . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 6 | There are fifty times as many Singer sewing machines as motor cars in Koraloona . |
| 7 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 8 | The private schools are the most select in class terms : almost forty times as many service as working class children attend HMC schools . |
| 9 | In a typical doctor-patient exchange , a doctor will make on average six times as many interruptions as the patient . |
| 10 | The particular data structure it is manipulating occupies about six times as many bytes in memory as its length as a string of text . |
| 11 | Smoking causes six times as many premature deaths as road accidents , all other accidents , suicides , murder , manslaughter , fires , illicit drug use and AIDS put together . |
| 12 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 13 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 14 | We have six times as many swallows , if we have six swallows . |
| 15 | Although in your native country , England , there are in my epoch six times as many people as in 1816 , nevertheless , the individual is guaranteed a much better chance to lead a life free from catastrophe and , if catastrophe occurs , a much better chance to be helped to recover . |
| 16 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 17 | No tourist should be without at least 10 times as many pockets as they 'll ever find use for . |
| 18 | There are 10 times as many men with AIDS every two years , an exponential growth which will obviously continue until a cure is found . |
| 19 | Twice as many top 100 companies provide balance sheets , 10 times as many provide cash flow statements . |
| 20 | Boundary Routing — according to the company — enables up to 10 times as many remote site connections to be added without increasing administrative resources . |
| 21 | Police injuries , 243 in August 1977 ( according to Merlyn Rees , Home Secretary ) , continually made headlines but in fact about three times as many pickets were injured . |
| 22 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | But this would require three times as many pixels to get the same resolution as monochrome . |
| 30 | In Wales , there are almost three times as many conifers than broadleaves . |