Example sentences of "more than [num] times as much " in BNC.
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| 1 | They charged $366 billion to general-purpose credit-cards last year , more than five times as much as in 1980 ; outstanding credit-card debt rose sevenfold to $177 billion over the decade . |
| 2 | In western Germany in 1990 the building industry produced more than five times as much rubbish as turned up in municipal solid waste — and most of it was simply tipped into Germany 's scarce landfill space . |
| 3 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 4 | People over 85 cost the health service , on average , more than 13 times as much as peopled aged 5–64 . |
| 5 | This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity ! |
| 6 | For people living in the same area , those in the most expensive properties should pay not more than three times as much — the maximum variation — as those in the least expensive properties . |