Example sentences of "[num] time [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
2 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |
3 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
4 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
5 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
6 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
7 | New generations of memory chips normally arrive at 30–40 times the price of the industry 's mainstream product . |
8 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
9 | Zeta , below the British horizon , has an O-type spectrum , and is highly luminous , with at least 55000 times the output of the Sun . |
10 | 2 times the rate of inflation is difficult to swallow . |
11 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
12 | From the remainder , patients representing 12 times the number of participating general practitioners in the practice were selected randomly . |
13 | The top 20% of the population have 26 times the income of the bottom 20% , one of the largest differentials in the world . |
14 | Although these coarser grains can not be removed directly by the wind , the impact derived from saltation is able to move grains six times the size of those forming the saltation . |
15 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
16 | In the case of Cygnus X-1 , this is about six times the mass of the sun , which , according to Chandrasekhar 's result , is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf . |
17 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
18 | He captained St Peter 's , York , at cricket , rugby and squash , won cricket ( all four years ) and hockey Blues at Cambridge and was six times the North of England squash champion . |
19 | The company is claiming it offers five to six times the performance of a 66MHz 486DX , and is fully PC-compatible , meaning you can run your shareware utilities on it . |
20 | For the ILP had six times the membership of the Communist Party , and although its contacts with the unemployed were not as strong , it had a much larger electoral following than the Communists in predominantly industrial areas . |
21 | In general , it is reasonable to assume that a simple transcription in traditional orthography ( that is , without using phonemic symbols or a phonetic transcription ) will take between four and six times the length of the original recording . |
22 | Exports per employee in the Scotch Whisky Industry are six times the average of UK manufacturing industry . |
23 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
24 | at six times the speed of the fastest projectile |
25 | Polycrystalline silicone cells , which are 12 per cent efficient , are also used in solar panels for other applications , as are amorphous silicone and hydrogen and according to American manufacture Solarex , has a potential of 100 times the absorption of other crystalline types . |
26 | It has a mass of 91.1 GeV ( a thousand million electronvolts ) — roughly 100 times the mass of the proton — to within an accuracy of 0.06GeV . |
27 | Extremely luminous water-vapour masers of 100 times the luminosity of the Sun , L and ; ( ref. 3 ) , have been detected within 1parsec ( 3x10 18 cm ) of its nucleus . |
28 | The effluent from paper making contains 10 to 100 times the amount of contaminants produced in the manufacture of polystyrene foam . |
29 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
30 | 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 . |