Example sentences of "than [num] times [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People in the top band in Wales will pay only three times the council tax of those at the bottom , although the value of their property is more than eight times greater . |
| 2 | Buy it in a bottle and you could be paying more than fifty times that . |
| 3 | Nothing wrong with that , you might think , even if it does represent more than 70 times last year 's earnings — a price-earnings ratio of Japanese proportions . |
| 4 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 5 | Upright reflux was more than three times greater than supine reflux ( p<0.01 ) ( Figs 2 ( A and B ) , Table I ) . |
| 6 | The current criterion for alert is two readings of more than three times normal background , either successively at the same site or simultaneously at two adjacent sites . |
| 7 | The economy in the South East ( representing 36.3 per cent of UK GDP ) dominates the whole economy and its size is more than three times that of any other region ( refer also to Figure 9.2 ) . |
| 8 | For example , the number of women suffering from arthritis is more than three times that of men . |
| 9 | Differences in adult mortality reach a peak for the 35–44 year age group , with Aboriginal men dying at a rate more than 11 times that of the total male population . |
| 10 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |
| 11 | Around 10 km 3 of volcanic debris was hurled into the atmosphere during the famous 1883 eruption of Krakatau ( Krakatoa ) in Indonesia , but more than ten times this quantity was involved in the 1815 eruption of Tambora , another Indonesian volcano . |
| 12 | In the 100 metres was Ben Johnson , who had run under 10.10 seconds no less than nine times that season , a record for the era of electrical timing . |
| 13 | But fears of a bulk chemical downturn and worries about the dollar overshadow the ICI share price which at 1,175p sells on less than 8 times 1989 earnings . |
| 14 | In 1981 , turnover of software houses from software development activities was more than five times that of 1975 , with annual growth rates as high as 60 per cent . |
| 15 | But some will get through more than five times that . |
| 16 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 17 | Halzen 's proposed detector will observe neutrinos from cosmic sources with energies more than 1000 times greater . |
| 18 | Though H pylori is recognised to be the most important acquired factor in the pathogenesis of DU the prevalence of the infection is more than four times that of DU . |
| 19 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |