Example sentences of "[coord] [num] times the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to electroweak theory , and using results from these other experiments , the W particle should have a mass of 80 giga electron volts ( Geff , or 80 times the mass of the proton . |
| 2 | steel , which is four or five times the strength of the steels in common use . |
| 3 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 4 | Landau pointed out that there was another possible final state for a star , also with a limiting mass of about one or two times the mass of the sun but much smaller even than a white dwarf . |
| 5 | In figure 8.1 , we could have expressed the differentials between service and working class as a ratio rather than a difference ; service class children had 0.719/0.237 or 3.03 times the chance of attending a selective school of some kind than working class children did . |
| 6 | In general , it is reasonable to assume that a simple transcription in traditional orthography ( that is , without using phonemic symbols or a phonetic transcription ) will take between four and six times the length of the original recording . |
| 7 | At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace . |
| 8 | The latest big rises to leading businessmen a 17.6pc rise for British Gas chairman Robert Evans and an 11.3pc rise for ICI boss Sir Denys Henderson are four and three times the rate of inflation respectively . |
| 9 | And Bubbles — real name Patricia — died after accidentally taking twice the amount she should have done … and five times the level of a drug that was supposed to wean her off them , a Westminster inquest heard yesterday . |
| 10 | He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) . |
| 11 | Each contained around 100lb of Semtex high explosive , five times as much as was used to demolish the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative conference and 40 times the size of an average car bomb . |
| 12 | The rises are between three and four times the rate of inflation . |