Example sentences of "four time the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea , based on a shared controller architecture , was to come in at two to four times the performance of a conventional X box and reach pricing levels of $700-$800 a seat in two to three years . |
| 2 | It promises three to four times the performance of an AS/400 E90 . |
| 3 | The larger partial model , approximately four times the scale of the full one , was 4 feet ( 1.2m ) high and 5 feet ( 1.5m ) wide , with working elevators on the outside and a couple of tiny rooms built inside , as well as a landing bay for Spinners ( flying cars ) . |
| 4 | With 64K , it also has four times the memory of the Nintendo . |
| 5 | We have four times the space in our new lab and this , together with plans to extend technical equipment , will create a firm future in development . |
| 6 | The result is that more working-class sons can move up while fewer middle-class boys need to move down ; the middle-class boy still has four times the chance of getting a managerial or professional job compared with a manual worker 's son . |
| 7 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | However brain size alone is not an absolute indication of intelligence - elephants , for example , have brains four times the size of our own . |
| 9 | High-precision laboratories can produce results with error terms of less than plus/minus 20 years ; they employ very carefully controlled measurement procedures , but they also require samples three to four times the size of those used by normal-precision , conventional laboratories . |
| 10 | Gorillas are four times the size of chimps . |
| 11 | It comes with a new 0.5 micron four-level metallisation CMOS CPU clocked at 50MHz which has a 32Kb on-chip cache , four times the size of the existing one . |
| 12 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |
| 13 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 14 | However it does appear that consumers pay the final bill as retail prices are over four times the level of wholesale prices , which is double the equivalent mark-up in the US or Western Europe . |
| 15 | They 'll provide accommodation and three meals a day , at only four times the cost of letting her do it herself . |
| 16 | This is covered in a relatively non-mathematical way by Ramakant Nevatia 's Machine Perception , but at four times the price per page of Foley 's book , students may be reluctant to buy it . |
| 17 | Diesel fuel now costs over four times the price of coal , for energy produced , and all the indications are that the gap will widen . |
| 18 | The largest increases have been to women aged 20–24 ; about 4 in 10 of their births were outside marriage in 1989 , more than four times the proportion in 1971 . |
| 19 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly Brazil has the best hydro-electric power potential of any country in the world estimated at over 200,000 MW or around four times the capacity of the UK 's national grid . |
| 21 | The next step is to 1,200dpi — 600dpi has four times the bandwidth of 300dpi , 1,200dpi is four times that of 600dpi — and this is the point at which page printing technology starts to break down . |
| 22 | While other ventures such as property lending faltered , American consumers piled up credit-card debt and tolerated interest rates three to four times the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 24 | The rises are between three and four times the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | We 're dismayed that Network Southeast is seeking to put up season ticket fares by up to four times the rate of inflation on some lines . |
| 26 | It was also four times the rate in Denmark , which itself has one of the highest levels of suicide in the world , 27 per 100,000 . |
| 27 | Open latches , take a piece of yarn at least four times the length of the neckband , lay behind needle heads and close latches over . |
| 28 | This can extend for as much as four times the length of its beak . |
| 29 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 30 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |