Example sentences of "at [num] times the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 2 | New generations of memory chips normally arrive at 30–40 times the price of the industry 's mainstream product . |
| 3 | at six times the speed of the fastest projectile |
| 4 | The infrared picture is at 10 times the scale of the optical photograph , showing only the very centre of the galaxy . |
| 5 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 7 | Although there are now trains which can travel in excess of 200 mph , supersonic planes which take passengers across the Atlantic in three hours , and spacecraft which can carry passengers at fifteen times the speed of sound , our ancestors used more stylish forms of transport . |
| 8 | The cost of the next stage after JET has been put at five times the cost of the Culham experiment and this would suggest the need for even wider collaboration . |