Example sentences of "[num] times the level of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |
| 2 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
| 3 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 4 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 5 | The plight of the Pakistani/Bangladeshi minority is particularly serious with unemployment rates almost three times the level of those among the white population . |
| 6 | Jac Nasser , Ford 's European chief , claims that his firm has ‘ ten times the level of commitment that the Japanese transplants have . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | And Bubbles — real name Patricia — died after accidentally taking twice the amount she should have done … and five times the level of a drug that was supposed to wean her off them , a Westminster inquest heard yesterday . |
| 9 | However it does appear that consumers pay the final bill as retail prices are over four times the level of wholesale prices , which is double the equivalent mark-up in the US or Western Europe . |
| 10 | Researchers have found fish there with 24 times the level of mercury considered safe by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |