Example sentences of "times as likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His life expectancy is falling and he is seven times as likely to be murdered as a white boy . |
| 2 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 3 | However , those who lost their virginity earlier are four times as likely to be smokers than those who lost it late — suggesting a pattern of people who are impulsive in more ways than one . |
| 4 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
| 5 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 6 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 7 | Retarded children were over three times as likely to be disturbed as children in the comparison group ( 23 per cent versus 7 per cent ) . |