Example sentences of "[noun sg] [num] times the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 2 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 3 | Businessmen from Sunkyong and Samling visited Guyana in March to open negotiations with the government and , on 17 October , signed a 25-year lease on 16,700km 2 of virgin forest — an area 10 times the size of Greater London . |
| 4 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 5 | In December 1941 , 2/2 Company sailed as part of Sparrow Force , 2,000 men in all mainly from the 2/40 Battalion going to reinforce the Dutch on western Timor , an island seventeen times the area of England and Wales , about 300 miles ( 480+km ) long and on average 40 miles ( 64km ) wide . |
| 6 | So if we calculate the Nernst potential for potassium , the equilibrium potential for potassium in other words , simply by applying the Nernst equation , fifty- nine times the log of the external over the internal potassium concentration , we can calculate a value there of minus eighty-seven millivolts . |
| 7 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 8 | But it could be argued that the policy of spending on bases rather than on troops has paid off since Saudi Arabia has been able to accommodate , with astonishing ease , a multinational army 20 times the size of its own . |
| 9 | Morgan Jr. , who in 1924 established his father 's library as a public institution now houses a book shop , education centre , lecture hall , staff offices and a conservation studio three times the size of the old one . |
| 10 | If you fine an oil-spilling company ten times the value of the spilt oil , its insurance rates merely rise . |
| 11 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |