Example sentences of "[num] times the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | New generations of memory chips normally arrive at 30–40 times the price of the industry 's mainstream product . |
| 8 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 9 | Zeta , below the British horizon , has an O-type spectrum , and is highly luminous , with at least 55000 times the output of the Sun . |
| 10 | 2 times the rate of inflation is difficult to swallow . |
| 11 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
| 12 | From the remainder , patients representing 12 times the number of participating general practitioners in the practice were selected randomly . |
| 13 | He never had a chance of getting the money , which would have been between 10 and 12 times the amount in circulation in the UK at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | The top 20% of the population have 26 times the income of the bottom 20% , one of the largest differentials in the world . |
| 15 | Although these coarser grains can not be removed directly by the wind , the impact derived from saltation is able to move grains six times the size of those forming the saltation . |
| 16 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Over the next seven years Cadillac built up a reputation as a quality car maker and , in 1906 , released the four-cylinder Model L. At $5000 , it was six times the price of the single-cylinder runabout and as well made as any car in the world . |
| 19 | He captained St Peter 's , York , at cricket , rugby and squash , won cricket ( all four years ) and hockey Blues at Cambridge and was six times the North of England squash champion . |
| 20 | The company is claiming it offers five to six times the performance of a 66MHz 486DX , and is fully PC-compatible , meaning you can run your shareware utilities on it . |
| 21 | That is six times the number to be offered the right of abode in the government 's package . |
| 22 | For the ILP had six times the membership of the Communist Party , and although its contacts with the unemployed were not as strong , it had a much larger electoral following than the Communists in predominantly industrial areas . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Exports per employee in the Scotch Whisky Industry are six times the average of UK manufacturing industry . |
| 25 | This was a revenue capable of startling , if unpopular , growth : in its peak year , 1638/39 , it reached £83,000 , six times the average for the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 26 | Exports per employee are six times the average for all UK manufacturing industries . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | at six times the speed of the fastest projectile |
| 29 | Polycrystalline silicone cells , which are 12 per cent efficient , are also used in solar panels for other applications , as are amorphous silicone and hydrogen and according to American manufacture Solarex , has a potential of 100 times the absorption of other crystalline types . |
| 30 | 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 . |