Example sentences of "[prep] 10 times the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 2 | Once launched the missiles are accurate enough to land a warhead with 10 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb on a tennis court 2500 kilometres away |
| 3 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 4 | It 's essentially a low-power version of the R4000 being developed by NEC Corp which will operate at less than 2W at 80MHz , but deliver up to 10 times the performance of competing low-cost personal computers and notebook-sized systems , the firm claims . |
| 5 | The infrared picture is at 10 times the scale of the optical photograph , showing only the very centre of the galaxy . |