Example sentences of "[subord] [num] times the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 2 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 3 | The estimated actual AIDS figure was more than three times the total of reported cases , which had reached 418,403 from 163 countries . |
| 4 | ‘ In the year to October 1991 the average price of a pint of beer went up by about 13pc , more than three times the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | Kathy 's in Perth is one of only two shops in WA devoted to machine knitting — in a state more than ten times the size of the UK . |
| 6 | The two American editions — Pretence-Hall and Abrams — are more than ten times the size of the British one . |
| 7 | Outer and Inner Mongolia together are more than 13 times the size of mainland Britain . |
| 8 | The number of therapists who belong to professional bodies in the UK is increasing by 12 per cent per year , which is more than five times the rate of increase of medical doctors . |
| 9 | Yet peas , extolled by advertisers for their tenderness , in fact contain more than four times the fibre of celery , weight for weight . |
| 10 | This was the equivalent of more than four times the population of London in 1851 . |
| 11 | The new nature reserve will be the area of Middlesbrough and more than seven times the size of Hyde Park . |
| 12 | Jupiter 's mass is 317.893 M E , which is more than 2½ times the mass of all the other planets put together . |
| 13 | When the vibration detector in its leg was tested in a laboratory , it could perceive movements as small as 2000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom . |
| 14 | Some plant-eaters were as much as 40 times the weight of Allosaurus . |
| 15 | This can extend for as much as four times the length of its beak . |
| 16 | Thus , one large contract caterer in a northern city with a high unemployment rate , whose casuals consisted almost entirely of otherwise unemployed people , estimated that as many as four times the number of people passed through its list of those available for casual work in the course of a year than were on that list at any one point in time . |