Example sentences of "[adv] [num] times the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More painful still , 16-megabit chips will hit the market at only nine times the price of existing 4-megabit DRAMs . |
| 2 | They 'll provide accommodation and three meals a day , at only four times the cost of letting her do it herself . |
| 3 | For each row the length of weaving yarn used is only the width of the knitting , whereas a knitted row uses approximately three times the width of the knitting . |
| 4 | For example , why do we not nowadays extensively see remedies causing ‘ more harm the larger the dose ’ ? after all the average dose from a tablet used today is approximately 50 times the dose of Hahnemann 's small granule . |
| 5 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 6 | The larger partial model , approximately four times the scale of the full one , was 4 feet ( 1.2m ) high and 5 feet ( 1.5m ) wide , with working elevators on the outside and a couple of tiny rooms built inside , as well as a landing bay for Spinners ( flying cars ) . |
| 7 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 8 | The dash is always THREE times the length of the dot . |
| 9 | It is nearly 10 times the size of the UK 's biggest industrial conglomerate , British Aerospace including its Rover car subsidiary , and dwarfs even the mighty Japanese motor manufacturers Toyota and Nissan . |
| 10 | Early fountain pens were made of black rubber and were semi-disposable ; the Duofold was a bright reddish-orange colour , much larger than other contemporary pens and thus capable of holding more ink , guaranteed for twenty-five years — and nearly three times the price of an average pen . |
| 11 | However , Drugs Council clients had over twice the proportion of ‘ two bag ’ daily users ( 22 per cent against 9 per cent ) compared to clients of the Detoxification Unit , whereas the latter agency had nearly three times the proportion of 1 gram per day users ( 14 per cent against 5 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
| 13 | It has a mass of 91.1 GeV ( a thousand million electronvolts ) — roughly 100 times the mass of the proton — to within an accuracy of 0.06GeV . |
| 14 | In the case of Cygnus X-1 , this is about six times the mass of the sun , which , according to Chandrasekhar 's result , is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf . |
| 15 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Motorola rates the new board at 70 Specmarks on the Specmark89 benchmark , which reflects both integer and floating point performance — about three times the performance of the comparable 88100-based MVME187 board . |
| 17 | If you use this method you will need a generous amount of fabric , about three times the width of the wall . |
| 18 | Since the front of a slug travels downstream at about three times the speed of the rear ( Fig. 18.7 ) , there can be substantial variations in the fraction of the flow that is turbulent ( Fig. 18.8 ) and thus in the flow rate . |
| 19 | The figure of 125 million photocells is about 5,000 times the number of separately resolvable points in a good-quality magazine photograph . |
| 20 | was about ten times the size of it . |
| 21 | But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’ |
| 22 | Interestingly , this is about ten times the rate of eruption of lava recorded over historic time . |
| 23 | The energy released will create sufficient pressure to support the star against its own gravity , giving rise to an object with a radius about five times the radius of the sun . |
| 24 | The Keith Report ( 1983 ) estimated losses due to tax evasion at 7 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product , around 15 billion , and tax loss at 4 billion , roughly 15 times the amount of welfare abuse . |
| 25 | About 580 times the volume of waste water is produced for the pulp required for the paper cup , ’ says Hocking . |
| 26 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 27 | Since the density of wood averages about one-fourteenth of that of steel it may be that about thirty times the volume of wood is used , taking the world as a whole . |
| 28 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 29 | Stratus Computer Inc has duly expanded its XA/R line of Intel Corp 80860 RISC-based Continuous Processing Systems with nine new models , claiming about 2.5 times the performance of comparably-priced members of the 68000 family-based XA2000 Series ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 30 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |