Example sentences of "[num] time as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year there are 500 times as many alcohol- and tobacco-related deaths as there are deaths related to the use of illegal drugs . |
| 2 | It is well over 1000 light-years away , and it is at least 500 times as luminous as the Sun , but its surface is very cool for a normal star — hence the crimson colour . |
| 3 | Al Nath is a bluish-white star , almost 500 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 4 | Parish and Peacock ( 1954 ) calculated that twice as much was spent per capita by the five major social services on pensioners as on children , and three-and-a-half times as much as on the active population . |
| 5 | For example , the spring 1990 Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) , which enumerates women who would like a job and are available for work , includes almost three-and-a-half times as many women as the monthly claimant count and puts the figure of female unemployment at about I million higher than the claimant count . |
| 6 | In the secondary sector the disparities were even wider with the richest schools having thirty-seven times as much additional income as the poorest . |
| 7 | The world has about 3000 times as much groundwater as it has water in rivers and lakes , and groundwater is far cleaner . |
| 8 | He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded . |
| 9 | Between 1957 and 1967 eight times as many such collections appeared as in the previous decade , and thereafter the flow continued , if at a slower rate . |
| 10 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 11 | It will argue to delegates in Kyoto that , while a Bryde 's whale is worth about ¥33.4m ( $100,000 ) in a fish market , the 16 resident Bryde 's whales at Ogata are expected to bring in ¥675m to the boatmen over the next 15 years and nearly eight times as much in hotel accommodation and assorted knick-knacks . |
| 12 | Analyses showed that water contained eight parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen ; on Dalton 's assumption , then , the atom of oxygen weighs eight times as much as that of hydrogen , while on the H 2 O formula favoured by Davy and by us it weighs sixteen times as much . |
| 13 | We have paid out eight times as much in funds to industry as we have taken in premiums since 1984 . |
| 14 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |
| 15 | We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much . |
| 16 | The study calculated that , compared to recycling , the production of new polyethylene bags requires three times as much energy , consumes eight times as much water , generates twice as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides and three times as much sulphur dioxide . |
| 17 | The rate of decline has owed a great deal to the overall level of employment in the economy , so that year-to-year fluctuations have varied considerably — it has been calculated , for example , that a 1 per cent decline in the national level of unemployment is sufficient to provoke an increase in the outflow of labour from agriculture eight times as large . |
| 18 | Its use is greater than BSL or MCE ( children with severe learning disabilities are eight times as numerous as profoundly deaf children ) . |
| 19 | At its peak it was perhaps 6000000 times as luminous as the Sun , and this is still true today , though its light is dimmed by intervening nebulosity ; in infra-red it is one of the strongest sources in the sky . |
| 20 | Scientists interpreting the greenhouse effect today know that the oceans act as a massive ‘ sink ’ containing fifty times as much carbon as the atmosphere , mostly dissolved in the form of bicarbonate . |
| 21 | There are fifty times as many Singer sewing machines as motor cars in Koraloona . |
| 22 | Alpha is an M-type giant , 120 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 23 | At ground level , NOx is three times more potent than C02 , but at the height at which aircraft normally cruise ( around 12 km ) , it can be over 300 times as powerful . |
| 24 | The average American consumes 300 times as much energy as the average Bangladeshi . |
| 25 | At least ten times as many people can be supported on a cereal diet than on a meat based diet — and that figure rockets up to 30 TIMES AS MANY people being supported by a diet based on soya protein . |
| 26 | The private schools are the most select in class terms : almost forty times as many service as working class children attend HMC schools . |
| 27 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 28 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 29 | It is a huge red supergiant , 218 light-years away and over 700 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 30 | It is one of the closer stars , at a distance of only 36 light-years , and is 115 times as luminous as the Sun . |