Example sentences of "[verb] [num] times the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the remainder , patients representing 12 times the number of participating general practitioners in the practice were selected randomly . |
| 2 | An individual with a Quetelet 's Index of 40 has three times the risk of dying in a year than someone whose weight is deal . |
| 3 | It has ten times the luminosity of the Sun , and is pure white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 4 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 5 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |
| 6 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 7 | The result is that more working-class sons can move up while fewer middle-class boys need to move down ; the middle-class boy still has four times the chance of getting a managerial or professional job compared with a manual worker 's son . |
| 8 | With 64K , it also has four times the memory of the Nintendo . |
| 9 | The next step is to 1,200dpi — 600dpi has four times the bandwidth of 300dpi , 1,200dpi is four times that of 600dpi — and this is the point at which page printing technology starts to break down . |
| 10 | It 's the time you shout at your boss and your colleagues because you 're sick of being taken for granted when you know you 've done three times the work of any man for half the recognition . |
| 11 | Williams designer Patrick Head said the car had absorbed 25 times the energy of the 20mph control crash tests each F1 car has to be put through . |
| 12 | He 's had 10 times the number of commission bids for Vung Tau as he had for Nanking — ‘ and this is a much smaller cargo ’ . |
| 13 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 14 | Before , the main component of idle production time was idle labour ; today , given that machine down time costs seven times the rate of employing someone , the knowledge to maintain and repair machines becomes the most important skill . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | California is said to use five times the amount of chemicals of the UK . |
| 17 | Doubtless Williams is getting five times the salary of everyone else in the movie — but that 's fair : he 's playing five roles . |
| 18 | Whilst the 60MHz iteration ca n't be clocked any faster , the 66MHz mask is designed to go to 100MHz and it is this part , touted as providing two-to-three times the performance of the 80486 , which Intel will use as a springboard for the launch of other Pentium family members — see back page . |
| 19 | But it does have seven times the number of homicides . |
| 20 | Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why the Department of Transport , whose budget has increased three times the rate of that of the Scottish Office , can find £1.5 billion for additional railway improvements in the south of England , but can not find £80 million to electrify the Edinburgh-Aberdeen railway line ? |
| 21 | Sinclair claims his flat TV gives three times the brightness of a normal tube of the same size with one tenth the power . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Electronic News hears that the new MasPar machine will offer three times the performance of the company 's two-year-old MP-1 system , but at the same price . |
| 24 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | The top 20% of the population have 26 times the income of the bottom 20% , one of the largest differentials in the world . |
| 26 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 27 | It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances . |
| 28 | This mode unites all the advantages of hot steam , such as short cooking times ( when humidity is added to dry heat you achieve 2–3 times the amount of heat penetration ) , low cooking losses , and juicy roasts that have the benefits of hot air , namely intensive flavour , appetizing colour and crunchy crusts . |