Example sentences of "was [num] [noun pl] 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 | That bomb was 400 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima . |