Example sentences of "over [num] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At ground level , NOx is three times more potent than C02 , but at the height at which aircraft normally cruise ( around 12 km ) , it can be over 300 times as powerful . |
| 2 | It is a huge red supergiant , 218 light-years away and over 700 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 3 | Zeta Persei is very luminous and remote ( over 15000 times as powerful as the Sun ) . |
| 4 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 5 | Can cost anything over 10 times as much as the yardstick rugs . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week . |
| 7 | If less reliable prostheses or techniques were used the cost at 10 years would be over three times as much . |
| 8 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 9 | Retarded children were over three times as likely to be disturbed as children in the comparison group ( 23 per cent versus 7 per cent ) . |
| 10 | In manufacturing the USA was over twice as productive per worker as Britain and over three times as productive as Germany ; the differential was much greater in relation to Japan . |
| 11 | If it is , then it must be well over 200000 times as luminous as the Sun , much more powerful than Rigel or Deneb . |
| 12 | The other is the river Great Eau in Lincolnshire , which has an average nitrate level over ten times as high : 37.6 mg/litre . |
| 13 | Tax returns of the 1520s do not provide an exact comparison , as they are concerned with the wealth rather than the number of the inhabitants , but they show its continued pre-eminence , almost ten times as wealthy as Norwich , and over fifteen times as wealthy as Bristol ( 82 , pp.13–14 ) . |
| 14 | You are fortunate to be writing in English as it has a vocabulary of over half a million words — over five times as many as French . |
| 15 | These days the only thing the notoriously fickle C2s seem capable of raising is the 10 per cent capital required by building societies before they hand over nine times as much money , which is in turn entrusted to the builders . |
| 16 | Spica , over 2000 times as luminous as the Sun , is bluish-white . |
| 17 | It is 42 light-years away , and over 150 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 18 | Agena , at 460 light-years , is over 10000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 19 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 20 | Round for round plastic bullets have killed over four times as many people as their rubber predecessors . |
| 21 | Both Alpha and Beta are very distant , and are well over 5000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 22 | Lambda is a red K-type star over 5000 times as luminous as the Sun ; binoculars show the colour well . |
| 23 | In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan . |