Example sentences of "[be] about [num] times the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arms are about 8 times the disk diameter , flat , and widening outside the disk . |
| 2 | The arms are about 3 times the disk diameter , slightly flattened , all the plates of the arm are striated . |
| 3 | That 's about six times the present number . |
| 4 | It 's difficult as far as the alternatives are concerned , is that no alternatives , but effectively it 's about four times the cost to administer , because you can dip a hundred sheep off one of the er , packs and it 's a smaller pack . |
| 5 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 6 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 7 | The figure of 125 million photocells is about 5,000 times the number of separately resolvable points in a good-quality magazine photograph . |
| 8 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The transverse width is about six times the height , and their length may be 80 km ( so miles ) or more . |
| 10 | In the case of Cygnus X-1 , this is about six times the mass of the sun , which , according to Chandrasekhar 's result , is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf . |
| 11 | The arm length is about three times the disk diameter . |
| 12 | The cost of forest loss through sulphur pollution is about three times the amount dedicated to controlling air pollution by European political leaders . |
| 13 | The cost and the estimated monetary value of the worktime lost came out to $1,231 , which is about 30 times the legal monthly minimum wage . |
| 14 | Interestingly , this is about ten times the rate of eruption of lava recorded over historic time . |
| 15 | In the first response the stepping rate is about 0.6 times the natural frequency and therefore the rotor is behind the equilibrium position and has a low velocity when the next excitation change occurs . |
| 16 | was about ten times the size of it . |