Example sentences of "[num] the size of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostility between the two necessarily frightens tiny Taiwan , with a population one-fiftieth the size of China 's . |
| 2 | A minizyme is about two-thirds the size of a ribozyme and is more stable . |
| 3 | They have played host to ten children from Byelorussia , north of Chernobyl , in which 20% of the land ( an area two-thirds the size of Scotland ) has been contaminated . |
| 4 | 3.1.1 The size of the market |
| 5 | Between 1862 and 1870 the size of the reserve went up from 210,000 men to 553,000 . |
| 6 | By the end of 1922 the size of the guberniia Party organization totalled 5,925,9 compared with , for instance , 3,286 local officials of the Commissariat for agriculture , most of whom were not Party members , but who , by the very nature of their work as surveyors , land-reclaimers , timber and livestock experts , were scattered more widely round the rural areas than were Party workers . |
| 7 | 6.3 The Size of the Market in the 1990s |
| 8 | Before going on to discuss the characteristics of each market we set out in Table 6.3 the size of each of the markets that constitute the London money market . |
| 9 | By 1911 the size of the local electorate in England and Wales excluding London was 3,265,000 of which about 419,000 were women ( Sheppard 1982:20 ) . |
| 10 | FIG. 3 The size of the glutamate uptake current depends on the intracellular anion present . |
| 11 | The nine-foot-long Bugatti , built in 1944 of mahogany and ash and having an engine one-sixth the size of a Bugatti car , is believed to be one of only two in the world . |
| 12 | Bali is very special ; a tiny island , barely one-quarter the size of Wales , densely populated with nearly three million inhabitants . |
| 13 | The slowdown in military spending and escalating costs of armament programmes will make it increasingly difficult for any company , even one the size of BAe , to go it alone . |
| 14 | Not even one the size of GM , which has enthusiastically joined in the scramble to forge alliances and co-operative deals with other motor manufacturers worldwide . |
| 15 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |
| 16 | This has a capacity of 240 MW , between a quarter and one-eighth the size of the capacity of a large power station . |
| 17 | In May 1989 the size of the weekly three month Treasury bill tender was increased from the customary £100 million to £500 million , and for the first time a weekly six month tender of £100 million was introduced . |
| 18 | Since April 1988 the size of the budget for each school has been calculated using a formula ( based mainly on age-weighted pupil units ) rather than the use of historical costs . |
| 19 | Throughout the 1950s the size of work they were able to find was determined by economic growth and the legacy of colonial attitudes . |
| 20 | 3.2.2 The size of the market |