Example sentences of "[be] [num] times the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports per employee in the Scotch Whisky Industry are six times the average of UK manufacturing industry . |
| 2 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If the STV were to be adopted in Britain and the total number of MPs were to remain unchanged , a typical constituency could be five times the size of the average present constituency and return five MPs . |
| 4 | On this basis , Ms Julius reckons that the total foreign sales of American companies are five times the value of their recorded exports . |
| 5 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 6 | The 225,000 hand-loom weavers in 1811 were three times the number of 1795 . |
| 7 | Gorillas are four times the size of chimps . |
| 8 | The area between one arch and the base is 3π a ² , which is three times the area of the generating circle . |
| 9 | The internal diameter of these stents is 10 mm , which is three times the diameter of the largest plastic stents . |
| 10 | But , in one case , we found an increase in premiums of a staggering 78pc — that 's 55 times the rate of inflation . ’ |
| 11 | Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’ |
| 12 | As the U.S. population is five times the size of Britain 's the U.K. 's reserves are now 2.5 times those of the U.S. on a per capita basis . |
| 13 | This year the UK will import 28,000 tonnes of raisins — that 's five times the figure of a decade ago . |
| 14 | The outermost skin layer of the bottlenose dolphin is replaced every 2 hours , which is nine times the rate of human skin renewal . |
| 15 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 16 | This is four times the number of cases of AIDS actually reported to the WHO ( 501,272 to April 1992 ) . |
| 17 | Right next question is the one where you 're given these two complex numbers , and you 're asked to show the , the modules of Z one squared is two times the modules of Z two squared . |
| 18 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 22 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
| 23 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
| 24 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |
| 25 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
| 26 | That bomb was 400 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima . |