Example sentences of "than [num] times [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Buy it in a bottle and you could be paying more than fifty times that . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | For example , the number of women suffering from arthritis is more than three times that of men . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | But some will get through more than five times that . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |