Example sentences of "more than three [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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1 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
2 | The 10–14 year olds are the most at risk group of all , with the under-14 's more than three times as likely as adults to be injured on any particular foot journey . |
3 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
4 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
5 | There are now over 11 million shareholders , more than three times as many as in 1979 . |
6 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |
7 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
8 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |
9 | For people living in the same area , those in the most expensive properties should pay not more than three times as much — the maximum variation — as those in the least expensive properties . |
10 | More than three times as many men as women killed themselves during that time , the Minister for Health , Brendan Howlin , disclosed . |