Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] times the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How can the Institute justify charging its members in excess of three times the cost of comparable courses ? |
| 4 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 5 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 6 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 7 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 8 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 9 | This is something like twelve times the number of flights G-BEBP had carried out when the failure occurred . |
| 10 | Once launched the missiles are accurate enough to land a warhead with 10 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb on a tennis court 2500 kilometres away |
| 11 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 12 | So let's sum up , I treated a similar case with 5 times the amount of fluid than the article used , the case was solid the next day and was viewed for 3 days and had no greying off and the colour was really good . |
| 13 | But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin group will be content to stay a minority player in the long term . |
| 14 | Sir : Your Outlook Column ( 3 October ) ended with the statement : But the question must remain as to whether a Japanese giant with five times the turnover of the Virgin Group will be content to stay a minority player . |
| 15 | Researchers have found fish there with 24 times the level of mercury considered safe by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 16 | We found the local Syrian commander basking on the geranium-smothered patio of the Park Hotel , in happier times the retreat of honeymooners . |
| 17 | In late times the island of Bigah near Philae was another important place associated with Osiris . |
| 18 | All these qualities provided by the academic course are valued by the gate-keepers of the foreign language-teaching profession — PGCE tutors , advisers to L.E.A.s headteachers — but especially in recent times the degree of spoken language fluency is stressed . |
| 19 | As Mandy Merck points out at the beginning of an acute and informative summary , in recent times the theory of sexual difference has exerted a profound influence on psychoanalytically inspired cultural analysis ( ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 2 ) . |
| 20 | Since then , rock has been brought from Trefor Quarry in North Wales but in recent times the use of Ailsa Craig rock has been resumed . |
| 21 | The dolphin is practically extinct in the Punjab , where only 60 to 70 are reported to survive in the thousands of kilometres of river which were until recent times the home of many more animals . |
| 22 | In Soviet times the onset of spring was also signalled by that dismal rite , the publication of official slogans in advance of May Day . |
| 23 | Oakeshott argues that in modern times the conception of the state as universitas has taken hold , primarily as a result of the extension of the executive apparatus of civil rule . |
| 24 | In earlier times the quality of the information provided by a register varies from place to place and from incumbent to incumbent . |
| 25 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 26 | The effluent from paper making contains 10 to 100 times the amount of contaminants produced in the manufacture of polystyrene foam . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | It 's essentially a low-power version of the R4000 being developed by NEC Corp which will operate at less than 2W at 80MHz , but deliver up to 10 times the performance of competing low-cost personal computers and notebook-sized systems , the firm claims . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |