Example sentences of "[conj] [num] times the size 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 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 .
3 The two American editions — Pretence-Hall and Abrams — are more than ten times the size of the British one .
4 Outer and Inner Mongolia together are more than 13 times the size of mainland Britain .
5 The new nature reserve will be the area of Middlesbrough and more than seven times the size of Hyde Park .
6 At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace .
7 Each contained around 100lb of Semtex high explosive , five times as much as was used to demolish the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative conference and 40 times the size of an average car bomb .
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