Example sentences of "[be] [num] times the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Exports per employee are six times the average for all UK manufacturing industries . |
2 | Exports per employee in the Scotch Whisky Industry are six times the average of UK manufacturing industry . |
3 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
4 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | On this basis , Ms Julius reckons that the total foreign sales of American companies are five times the value of their recorded exports . |
7 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
8 | The 225,000 hand-loom weavers in 1811 were three times the number of 1795 . |
9 | Gorillas are four times the size of chimps . |
10 | Will he confirm that last year the Scottish Office spent £2.6 million on advertising alone , which is 10 times the figure for 1979 ? |
11 | That is six times the number to be offered the right of abode in the government 's package . |
12 | The area between one arch and the base is 3π a ² , which is three times the area of the generating circle . |
13 | The internal diameter of these stents is 10 mm , which is three times the diameter of the largest plastic stents . |
14 | But , in one case , we found an increase in premiums of a staggering 78pc — that 's 55 times the rate of inflation . ’ |
15 | Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | With longer hours at work and less investment in safety devices , the frequency of industrial injuries in small firms is twelve times the rate in large firms . |
18 | This year the UK will import 28,000 tonnes of raisins — that 's five times the figure of a decade ago . |
19 | The outermost skin layer of the bottlenose dolphin is replaced every 2 hours , which is nine times the rate of human skin renewal . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | This is four times the number of cases of AIDS actually reported to the WHO ( 501,272 to April 1992 ) . |
22 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
26 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
27 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
28 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |
29 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
30 | That bomb was 400 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima . |