Example sentences of "[conj] three times [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK deep mined coal , although the cheapest in the EEC is twice or three times as expensive as US deep mined coal or Australian mined coal , or South African coal ; |
| 2 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 3 | In their natural state , tropical forests , especially tropical rainforests , are among the most productive of the earth 's ecosystems producing two or three times as much organic matter per unit area ( e.g. ) than temperate or boreal forests ( typically ) and as numerous writers have pointed out they are also the most diverse ecosystems in terms of numbers of plant and animal species ( P W Richards 1986 , Walker 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Some of these big fish fetch big prices , two or three times as much as we would pay for them here , and they will go to the classy restaurants or the Marseille fish shops , but the boxes of little slithery bright pink fish called demoiselles and the miscellaneous collections of bony little rock fish , undersized whiting and other small fry , will go for very little . |
| 5 | Which costs two or three times as much . |
| 6 | That is right — two or three times as much . |
| 7 | Mr. Ian Hunter , Secretary General of the Association of Optometrists , wrote in reply to the Minister 's letter : ’ To restart national health service eye examinations for the over 60s would now cost about £25 million but the cost for not doing so will be two or three times as much because eye disease will remain undetected until treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 8 | It costs more than a normal prescription , two or three times as much , one charge for each hormone they contain , yet means the difference between health or serious illness and peace of mind for you and your partner . |
| 9 | They jogged through scrub two or three times as high as they were . |
| 10 | It can be seen , then , that we are dealing with a condition that is some two or three times as common as gonorrhoea , for which an organism is implicated and can be grown in perhaps 50 per cent of cases ; and yet there are no facilities , generally , for its isolation . |
| 11 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 12 | Taylor ( 1982 ) showed that in the Crown Court , black defendants are two or three times more likely to receive a custodial sentence . |
| 13 | Gallstones are lumps that develop in the gall bladder when the chemical balance of the bile is upset — and women are two or three times more likely to have them than men are . |
| 14 | Well you will find for instance that three times as many people will strongly oppose and was strongly in favour , something omitted from the report in front of me and there are eight per cent there that were indifferent . |
| 15 | For people living in the same area , those in the most expensive properties should pay not more than three times as much — the maximum variation — as those in the least expensive properties . |
| 16 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 17 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 18 | There are now over 11 million shareholders , more than three times as many as in 1979 . |
| 19 | More than three times as many men as women killed themselves during that time , the Minister for Health , Brendan Howlin , disclosed . |
| 20 | The 10–14 year olds are the most at risk group of all , with the under-14 's more than three times as likely as adults to be injured on any particular foot journey . |
| 21 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 22 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
| 23 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |
| 24 | The waste , to be dumped in July , will contain twice as much alpha radioactivity ( mostly plutonium ) and three times as much beta/gamma activity as was dumped last summer . |
| 25 | All in all , Britain has in recent years received six times as much investment from abroad as Germany , and three times as much as France — a major success story for the UK . |
| 26 | For successively larger and stronger-growing plants , use J.I. No. 2 or 3 , which contains twice and three times as much respectively of chalk and fertilizer . |
| 27 | Wholemeal bread contains more nutrients than white bread and three times as much fibre , but this does n't mean white bread is bad for you ; it contains valuable protein , carbohydrate , calcium , iron and B vitamins , and some fibre . |
| 28 | The study calculated that , compared to recycling , the production of new polyethylene bags requires three times as much energy , consumes eight times as much water , generates twice as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides and three times as much sulphur dioxide . |
| 29 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 30 | But what is almost certain is that around 60% of sufferers have some sort of genetic susceptibility to it , and three times as many women as men suffer from this distressing condition . |