Example sentences of "[was/were] about three time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we never used to we were about three times home in that er five years time . |
| 2 | It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it . |
| 3 | New projections from the gradually deteriorating health of these survivors showed that the risk of fatal cancer resulting from exposure to radiation was about three times what had previously been thought . |
| 4 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 5 | At gastrin releasing peptide 40 pmol/kg/h the median acid output ( mmol/h ) in the H pylori positive healthy volunteers ( 15.1 , range 3.3–38.3 ) was about three times that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 5.5 , range 1.0–9.0 ) ( p<0.02 ) ( Fig 2B ) . |