Example sentences of "than [num] times the [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 3 | ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years . |
| 4 | The estimated actual AIDS figure was more than three times the total of reported cases , which had reached 418,403 from 163 countries . |
| 5 | During the year 1976 the highest level of enthusiasm for family planning endured , more than 8 million sterilisations were reported , more than three times the number in the preceding year … these meant a nearly 50% increase in the proportion of Indian couples estimated to be protected by modern contraception achieved within a matter of months . |
| 6 | The court was told Mr McNally had consumed more than three times the limit for driving . |
| 7 | A pathologist 's report showed Paul Adrian Hughes had 275mcg of alcohol in 100ml of blood more than three times the limit for driving . |
| 8 | ‘ In the year to October 1991 the average price of a pint of beer went up by about 13pc , more than three times the rate of inflation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The two American editions — Pretence-Hall and Abrams — are more than ten times the size of the British one . |
| 11 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 12 | But being more than ten times the age at which that sort of behaviour is considered acceptable , what had she done ? |
| 13 | Outer and Inner Mongolia together are more than 13 times the size of mainland Britain . |
| 14 | The number of therapists who belong to professional bodies in the UK is increasing by 12 per cent per year , which is more than five times the rate of increase of medical doctors . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet peas , extolled by advertisers for their tenderness , in fact contain more than four times the fibre of celery , weight for weight . |
| 17 | This was the equivalent of more than four times the population of London in 1851 . |
| 18 | The new nature reserve will be the area of Middlesbrough and more than seven times the size of Hyde Park . |
| 19 | Jupiter 's mass is 317.893 M E , which is more than 2½ times the mass of all the other planets put together . |