Example sentences of "[adv] [num] time the " 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 | More painful still , 16-megabit chips will hit the market at only nine times the price of existing 4-megabit DRAMs . |
| 3 | They 'll provide accommodation and three meals a day , at only four times the cost of letting her do it herself . |
| 4 | In each case , the proportion attending in one class is approximately three times the proportion attending in the other ; the similarity between the two numbers ( 0.36 and 3.16 ) , however , requires careful inspection to spot . |
| 5 | For each row the length of weaving yarn used is only the width of the knitting , whereas a knitted row uses approximately three times the width of the knitting . |
| 6 | His estimate that 150,000 Iraqi Shias had sought refuge in Iran is exactly three times the figure given by the Iranian interior minister ( although the Iranians have no obvious reason to underestimate the number of refugees ) . |
| 7 | Some results fit the prediction very well ( e.g. if the numbers of offspring with red eyes is just three times the number with white eyes ) ; some fit it quite well ( e.g. if 61 have red eyes and 23 have white eyes ) , and some would fit it very badly ( e.g. if all but one had white eyes ) . |
| 8 | For example , why do we not nowadays extensively see remedies causing ‘ more harm the larger the dose ’ ? after all the average dose from a tablet used today is approximately 50 times the dose of Hahnemann 's small granule . |
| 9 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 10 | The larger partial model , approximately four times the scale of the full one , was 4 feet ( 1.2m ) high and 5 feet ( 1.5m ) wide , with working elevators on the outside and a couple of tiny rooms built inside , as well as a landing bay for Spinners ( flying cars ) . |
| 11 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 12 | The dash is always THREE times the length of the dot . |
| 13 | A Third World family of six would commonly burn about 3.6 tonnes of wood per year , nearly 12 times the average that a British family consumes . |
| 14 | It is nearly 10 times the size of the UK 's biggest industrial conglomerate , British Aerospace including its Rover car subsidiary , and dwarfs even the mighty Japanese motor manufacturers Toyota and Nissan . |
| 15 | In the 1991 tax year , the couple 's joint income , including the book royalties , was £743,000 , nearly three times the previous year 's £258,000 . |
| 16 | In 1977 Greece received the equivalent of 3.5% of its GNP in remittances from abroad ( 6 ) ; in the same year Portugal accepted transfers from abroad , mainly from migrants , totalling more than 1,000m dollars , nearly three times the total estimated income from tourism . |
| 17 | A Bank of England probe revealed some charge nearly three times the base interest rate on loans . |
| 18 | By the later 1940s , domestic sales were approaching nearly three times the prewar level . |
| 19 | Early fountain pens were made of black rubber and were semi-disposable ; the Duofold was a bright reddish-orange colour , much larger than other contemporary pens and thus capable of holding more ink , guaranteed for twenty-five years — and nearly three times the price of an average pen . |
| 20 | However , Drugs Council clients had over twice the proportion of ‘ two bag ’ daily users ( 22 per cent against 9 per cent ) compared to clients of the Detoxification Unit , whereas the latter agency had nearly three times the proportion of 1 gram per day users ( 14 per cent against 5 per cent ) . |
| 21 | Levi ( 1987 ) found that commercial fraud recorded by the London fraud squads represented nearly three times the total cost of all property crimes in London , and that 40 per cent of companies in the survey reported at least one fraud costing over 50,000 . |
| 22 | Around four million barrels ( 660,000 tonnes ) of oil were being burned each day in March 1991 , nearly three times the pre-war Kuwait output and almost 10 per cent of the world 's daily ration . |
| 23 | The sterling rate of return is 54.7 per cent , nearly three times the dollar rate of return . |
| 24 | This amazing £250,000 Japanese import is apparently so sophisticated that it is beyond its capability to frank more than one all-purpose hybrid place of origin on its postmark , viz ‘ Cumbria ’ occupying the whole upper half of the disc , with ‘ Dumfries & Galloway ’ ( nearly three times the length ) squeezed into the lower half . |
| 25 | His estimate was nearly three times the $2.5 billion loss forecast for the world 's carriers in 1992 by an International Air Transport Association director last October . |
| 26 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 27 | This is nearly ten times the projected output of oil wells in the Arctic . |
| 28 | At Knossos alone fragments of over 3000 Linear B tablets were recovered — nearly ten times the total number of Linear A inscriptions so far recorded . |
| 29 | It was also four times the rate in Denmark , which itself has one of the highest levels of suicide in the world , 27 per 100,000 . |
| 30 | While we are on the subject of money , it is interesting to note that Freud 's fee for an hour of his time was nearly four times the fee for a day in ‘ a first rate sanatorium ’ . |