Example sentences of "[be] [num] times the size of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
| 2 | If the STV were to be adopted in Britain and the total number of MPs were to remain unchanged , a typical constituency could be five times the size of the average present constituency and return five MPs . |
| 3 | Gorillas are four times the size of chimps . |
| 4 | Kadan says it 's ten times the size of Pesth . ’ |
| 5 | As the U.S. population is five times the size of Britain 's the U.K. 's reserves are now 2.5 times those of the U.S. on a per capita basis . |
| 6 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 7 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |
| 8 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 9 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
| 10 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
| 11 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |
| 12 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
| 13 | That bomb was 400 times the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima . |