Example sentences of "was [num] [noun] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He captained St Peter 's , York , at cricket , rugby and squash , won cricket ( all four years ) and hockey Blues at Cambridge and was six times the North of England squash champion . |
| 2 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
| 3 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 4 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
| 5 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
| 6 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |
| 7 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
| 8 | The Times of Oct. 6 noted that in the old FRG a party would have to win 2,250,000 votes to win representation as compared with only 550,000 in the former GDR where the electorate was one quarter the size of that in the old FRG . |
| 9 | That bomb was 400 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima . |