Example sentences of "three times the amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOCAL education authorities want to spend more than £1 billion on school repairs next year , three times the amount allocated for this year , the Labour Party said yesterday . |
| 2 | Yet in the end it sold the site for three times the amount that the City expected to obtain by demolishing the buildings . |
| 3 | The bill was almost three times the amount of her last poll tax demand . |
| 4 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 5 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |
| 7 | Total rainfall is 3,550 mm ( 139.7 in ) , over three times the amount received at Ostra . |
| 8 | Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport |
| 9 | It has been estimated that the amount of fossil fuels that will be consumed between AD 2000 and AD 2050 will be over three times the amount consumed between AD 1 and AD 2000 . |
| 10 | The cost of forest loss through sulphur pollution is about three times the amount dedicated to controlling air pollution by European political leaders . |
| 11 | We have asked questions about clearing the grass up afterwards and we 're told that would probably be two or three times the amount in the contract and in the actual , at the end of the day you get what you 're paid for , you get what you pay for , and if you do n't provide the resources or you ca n't provide the resources , I should say , then obviously you 've got ta make do with second best . |