Example sentences of "[num] times the size of " in BNC.
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1 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
2 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
3 | Although these coarser grains can not be removed directly by the wind , the impact derived from saltation is able to move grains six times the size of those forming the saltation . |
4 | It is nearly 10 times the size of the UK 's biggest industrial conglomerate , British Aerospace including its Rover car subsidiary , and dwarfs even the mighty Japanese motor manufacturers Toyota and Nissan . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Businessmen from Sunkyong and Samling visited Guyana in March to open negotiations with the government and , on 17 October , signed a 25-year lease on 16,700km 2 of virgin forest — an area 10 times the size of Greater London . |
7 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
8 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |
9 | The industry is dominated by Michelin , Goodyear and Bridgestone , each two to three times the size of either Continental or Pirelli . |
10 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
11 | It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour . |
12 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
13 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
14 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
15 | At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace . |
16 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
17 | Morgan Jr. , who in 1924 established his father 's library as a public institution now houses a book shop , education centre , lecture hall , staff offices and a conservation studio three times the size of the old one . |
18 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
19 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
20 | The conversion process requires free space equivalent to three times the size of the file being converted . |
21 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
22 | Its initial aim is the establishment of a national park , three times the size of Belgium , in the Upper Solimnoes River region of western Amazonia . |
23 | The most dramatic increase has been in the former Soviet Union , where the area of land under forest rose by 70 million hectares — three times the size of Britain — over the past 25 years . |
24 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |
25 | Kathy 's in Perth is one of only two shops in WA devoted to machine knitting — in a state more than ten times the size of the UK . |
26 | The two American editions — Pretence-Hall and Abrams — are more than ten times the size of the British one . |
27 | Sudan is Africa 's largest country with an area of almost a million square miles , ten times the size of Great Britain . |
28 | Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’ |
29 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
30 | was about ten times the size of it . |