Example sentences of "[num] times the size of " 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 Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed .
3 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 .
4 It is nearly 10 times the size of the UK 's biggest industrial conglomerate , British Aerospace including its Rover car subsidiary , and dwarfs even the mighty Japanese motor manufacturers Toyota and Nissan .
5 Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer .
6 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 .
7 The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense .
8 A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open .
9 The industry is dominated by Michelin , Goodyear and Bridgestone , each two to three times the size of either Continental or Pirelli .
10 That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s .
11 It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour .
12 Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest .
13 Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there .
14 Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice .
15 At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace .
16 This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west .
17 Morgan Jr. , who in 1924 established his father 's library as a public institution now houses a book shop , education centre , lecture hall , staff offices and a conservation studio three times the size of the old one .
18 The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's .
19 ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said .
20 The conversion process requires free space equivalent to three times the size of the file being converted .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards .
25 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 .
26 The two American editions — Pretence-Hall and Abrams — are more than ten times the size of the British one .
27 Sudan is Africa 's largest country with an area of almost a million square miles , ten times the size of Great Britain .
28 Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’
29 However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire .
30 was about ten times the size of it .
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