Example sentences of "[noun] [num] times the size of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 3 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 4 | However brain size alone is not an absolute indication of intelligence - elephants , for example , have brains four times the size of our own . |
| 5 | Businessmen from Sunkyong and Samling visited Guyana in March to open negotiations with the government and , on 17 October , signed a 25-year lease on 16,700km 2 of virgin forest — an area 10 times the size of Greater London . |
| 6 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 7 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 8 | But it could be argued that the policy of spending on bases rather than on troops has paid off since Saudi Arabia has been able to accommodate , with astonishing ease , a multinational army 20 times the size of its own . |
| 9 | Morgan Jr. , who in 1924 established his father 's library as a public institution now houses a book shop , education centre , lecture hall , staff offices and a conservation studio three times the size of the old one . |
| 10 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |