Example sentences of "three times the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 2 | If it 's a big discharge and it 's way outside the limits then it 's serious — two to three times the limits . |
| 3 | A ‘ big discharge ’ which is ‘ way outside the limits ’ ( by which is meant ‘ two to three times the limits ’ ) is described as ‘ serious ’ and presumably demands action , though no reference is made as to remedy . |
| 4 | Basically this provides that controlling persons who ‘ knowingly or recklessly ’ fail to supervise their employees properly , with a view to preventing insider dealing violations , can be made liable for three times the profit made or loss avoided ( this may not exceed a $1m fine ) for violations committed by their employees or other controlled persons . |
| 5 | BNP will offer high income multiples of up to four times the first income ( which has to be that of the professional ) plus three times the second . |
| 6 | Three times the Germans attacked in vain . |
| 7 | In each case , the proportion attending in one class is approximately three times the proportion attending in the other ; the similarity between the two numbers ( 0.36 and 3.16 ) , however , requires careful inspection to spot . |
| 8 | However , Drugs Council clients had over twice the proportion of ‘ two bag ’ daily users ( 22 per cent against 9 per cent ) compared to clients of the Detoxification Unit , whereas the latter agency had nearly three times the proportion of 1 gram per day users ( 14 per cent against 5 per cent ) . |
| 9 | Three times in twenty-four hours MacDonald tried to resign and three times the King dissuaded him . |
| 10 | Three times the court adjourned , and finally , without allowing him to speak further , it condemned him to death for treason against the people . |
| 11 | People in the top band in Wales will pay only three times the council tax of those at the bottom , although the value of their property is more than eight times greater . |
| 12 | The £100m spent by the tobacco industry on advertising is not three times the budget of the Health Promotion Agency . |
| 13 | Three times the ball was spun out to the right and three times Claude Gerald left the North Midlands defence for dead with a stunning hat-trick of tries . |
| 14 | Alexander Burovoi , head of the permanent team researching the accident , and Alexander Sich of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , estimate that at least 35 per cent of the radiocaesium and 50 per cent of the iodine in the reactor core was released : twice or three times the estimates released by the Soviet authorities in 1986 . |
| 15 | The £50 offered daily to the first AE to get a bike back with a client 's cheque , seemed to the world-weary AEs worth more than three times the equivalent , as paid at the end of the month . |
| 16 | On the basis of its dispersion measure of 75.68cm -3 pc , its distance is 1.5kpc , about three times the distance to the Vela pulsar . |
| 17 | Twice as far away , twice the speed ; three times the distance , three times the speed ; ten times the distance , ten times the speed , and so on . |
| 18 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 19 | For example , a manufacturer of bathroom and kitchen taps might wish to assess the potential market for taps in country A and country B. The income per capita in country A might be three times the income per capita in country B , and so the manufacturer might assess the potential market for taps to be three times as large in country A as in country B. However , the inhabitants of country B might live in larger houses than people in country A , and the country B houses might have an average 1 ½ times more bathrooms/kitchens . |
| 20 | It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances . |
| 21 | Sinclair claims his flat TV gives three times the brightness of a normal tube of the same size with one tenth the power . |
| 22 | In 70% of all species , young leaves suffered more than old ones , though they have two to three times the phenol concentrations . |
| 23 | How can the Institute justify charging its members in excess of three times the cost of comparable courses ? |
| 24 | 6 : According to the House of Commons Energy Committee , the price of PWR-generated electricity will be 6.5p per unit ( even with interest on borrowed money during construction omitted ) , two to three times the cost of fossil-fuel generation . |
| 25 | Before 1852 was out Mrs Stowe 's ‘ awful book ’ had sold an amazing 1,000,000 copies , over three times the total sold in America . |
| 26 | The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) . |
| 27 | The estimated actual AIDS figure was more than three times the total of reported cases , which had reached 418,403 from 163 countries . |
| 28 | There is also provision for private litigation , whereby private parties can sue for three times the damages inflicted upon them by violations of the law . |
| 29 | His estimate was nearly three times the $2.5 billion loss forecast for the world 's carriers in 1992 by an International Air Transport Association director last October . |
| 30 | The Gt1x 8-bit two-dimensional graphics adaptor offers two to three times the performance of the Gt1 ; most products ship May 28 , but the 23T follows June 4 , and the 23E upgrade and GT1x on the 220 are July 16 . |