Example sentences of "times the size of " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If the STV were to be adopted in Britain and the total number of MPs were to remain unchanged , a typical constituency could be five times the size of the average present constituency and return five MPs . |
| 33 | Sudan is Africa 's largest country with an area of almost a million square miles , ten times the size of Great Britain . |
| 34 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 35 | Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 39 | Almost every excavation which has been conducted in the area bounded by the River Alne on the east and north-east , the marsh on the north and north-west , Ryknild Street on the west and the boundary ditch on the south has produced evidence , however slight , for structures of one sort or another , and it is clear that the whole town was several times the size of the walled area . |
| 40 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
| 41 | The conversion process requires free space equivalent to three times the size of the file being converted . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 ) . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
| 48 | That bomb was 400 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima . |
| 49 | The new nature reserve will be the area of Middlesbrough and more than seven times the size of Hyde Park . |
| 50 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 51 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 52 | The swollen testis was two and a half times the size of the normal one and very hard . |
| 53 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |
| 54 | was about ten times the size of it . |
| 55 | 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 |
| 56 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |