Example sentences of "about [num] times the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost and the estimated monetary value of the worktime lost came out to $1,231 , which is about 30 times the legal monthly minimum wage . |
| 2 | In England Sheila Brayford from Staffordshire died from brain damage in 1981 when she absorbed about 100 times the normal level of aluminium in dialysis . |
| 3 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 4 | That 's about six times the present number . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The transverse width is about six times the height , and their length may be 80 km ( so miles ) or more . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 9 | If using hangers , pad them to about three times the usual extent with acid-free tissue or with polyester wadding covered with white cotton ( which can also be used to pad out the shoulders and shapes of packed costumes ) . |
| 10 | The band 's legal bill alone was £10,000 , about three times the usual cost . |
| 11 | The usual rule is that the tax is imposed only on income exceeding about three times the average net personal income per worker in the social sector of the given republic or province . |
| 12 | I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years . |
| 13 | On the basis of its dispersion measure of 75.68cm -3 pc , its distance is 1.5kpc , about three times the distance to the Vela pulsar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The arm length is about three times the disk diameter . |
| 16 | It is interesting to not that the values achieved in 1989 were broadly at about three times the turnover seen in these outlets , whereas today , a multiplier of approximately one , to one and a quarter times turnover , is far more appropriate . |
| 17 | If you use this method you will need a generous amount of fabric , about three times the width of the wall . |
| 18 | The report concluded that there had consequently been a major increase in defaults and arrears during 1990 , with some $85,000 million of interest and capital repayment outstanding at the end of the year , about three times the level recorded in 1985 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The cost of forest loss through sulphur pollution is about three times the amount dedicated to controlling air pollution by European political leaders . |
| 21 | The figure of 125 million photocells is about 5,000 times the number of separately resolvable points in a good-quality magazine photograph . |
| 22 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 23 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’ |
| 26 | It works by boosting the amount of serotonin in the brain to about ten times the usual level . |
| 27 | Similarly , mechanisms to excrete at least most of the excess salt that we eat , since most of us consume about ten times the amount necessary for our bodily needs . |
| 28 | Interestingly , this is about ten times the rate of eruption of lava recorded over historic time . |
| 29 | was about ten times the size of it . |
| 30 | The arms are about 3 times the disk diameter , slightly flattened , all the plates of the arm are striated . |