Example sentences of "times [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put the level of risk in perspective , one study concluded that anyone standing all day at a busy roadside with traffic containing 20 per cent diesel would be exposed to 1,000 times less benzo(a)pyrene than somebody smoking 10 to 15 cigarettes a day . |
| 2 | Inland Revenue statistics show that the region already pays more than 10 times more income tax than , for example , the North of England . |
| 3 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 4 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 5 | But the nucleus of a pre-malignant cell takes up two to three times more dye than a normal cell , the researchers find . |
| 6 | It was clocking up 10 times more assembly line rejects . |
| 7 | But he always has two or three times more possession than most . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ People living in houses eight times more expensive will only pay three times more council tax . ’ |
| 9 | Whereas the original promotional scheme used by Better Shoe Ltd cost eight times more money and reached at its best a response rate of 11% , the public relations scheme using health visitors and tailored to an understanding of mothers " needs , achieved a response rate of 17.3% on the first test and 21% on the second test — a significant accomplishment . |
| 10 | The large steam chamber has a one litre capacity , allowing up to one and a half hours of continuous ironing with three times more steam per minute than a conventional iron . |
| 11 | The prescribing unit is a weighting factor created by the Department of Health , based on the observation that elderly patients receive overall three times more prescription items than others . |
| 12 | We eat 10–20 times more salt that our bodies actually require . |
| 13 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 14 | The production of aluminium from bauxite requires about 20 times more energy than does scrap aluminium . |
| 15 | Gram for gram , the quail uses 10 times more energy at the same speed . |
| 16 | Men normally have higher BMRs than women because a larger part of their total body weight is muscle tissue , and muscle tissue can burn up to three times more energy than fat tissue , even when it is inactive . |
| 17 | The nuclear processes liberate a million times more energy , which is measured in MeV for mega ( million ) eV . |
| 18 | Answer : manufacturing a battery uses 50 times more energy than it generates and the mercury it contains is an atmospheric toxin , especially if the battery is incinerated after disposal . |
| 19 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 20 | In the east it is up to 16 times more acid . |
| 21 | The black snow , full of oily soot , had a pH of 3 , several hundred times more acid than normal . |
| 22 | This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 . |
| 23 | This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 . |
| 24 | Working from samples taken from the ice cap , French researchers have calculated that snowfall in Greenland in 1967 contained seven times more lead than in 1989 . |
| 25 | The outer layers of the Sun seem to contain forty times more iron and calcium than carbonaceous chondrites . |
| 26 | A kitten requires three times more nourishment , relative to body weight , than a fully grown cat . |
| 27 | However , the big tin-can already has three times more room for experiments than the present space station , which could render the modules redundant . |
| 28 | By 1992 there will be more than 16 million miles of fibre-optic cable in place , each of which can carry 160 times more information than a copper wire . |
| 29 | The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre . |
| 30 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |