Example sentences of "[num] times [adv] likely to be " in BNC.

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1 Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category .
2 Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 .
3 MERSEYSIDE youngsters are 100 times more likely to be injured by fireworks than the government admits , according to a report published today .
4 A sociology graduate , whether from a university or polytechnic , is 10 times more likely to be unemployed or in short-term employment than a building , pharmacy or civil engineering graduate .
5 As a result , an accused person in Dorset ( for example ) is 10 times more likely to be remanded in custody than a similar person in Bedfordshire .
6 By 17 years of age the children of obese parents are three times more likely to be obese than children of thin parents .
7 In 1983 , for example , men working full time were three times more likely to be covered than were men working part time .
8 Class shows itself in the fact that women who are council tenants are three times more likely to be sexually assaulted , than those who are owner-occupiers .
9 Here , motorists are now three times more likely to be breathalysed than in 1978 , and around 2,000 drivers are prosecuted every week .
10 Specialists were three times more likely to be continuing their studies , mainly registering for PhD higher degrees .
11 As a result in some parts of the country you 're three times more likely to be cautioned than in others .
12 Following the loss of their mother by separation or death , those children who experienced either marked indifference or markedly low control from their fathers or substitute parents were three times more likely to be depressed when interviewed in adulthood than women with no such experiences ( Brown et al. , 1986b ) .
13 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 .
14 Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone .
15 Retarded children were over three times as likely to be disturbed as children in the comparison group ( 23 per cent versus 7 per cent ) .
16 Young females are 18 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than those over 45 .
17 Figures alone colleagues can not show the misery of redundancy and unemployment , people who have been made redundant are thirty times to , more likely to commit suicide than those in work and time ten times more likely to be seriously ill .
18 Conversely , the reverse pattern was found for single women who had given birth who were five times more likely to be local authority tenants rather than owner-occupiers .
19 A report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology published on Oct. 23 , 1989 , showed that an Aboriginal was 28 times more likely to be sent to prison than a white person .
20 Suicide was the biggest cause of death , but the homeless are also 150 times more likely to be killed in an assault .
21 So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella !
22 Heavy cigarette smokers ( up to 50 pack-years ) were 4.7 times more likely to be wrinkled than nonsmokers .
23 A few years ago , a Government publication entitled ’ Practical Ways to Crack Crime ’ stated : ’ A stolen car is about 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner . ’
24 A stolen car is 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than one driven by its owner .
25 The last similar study , published in 1982 , had indicated that Aboriginals were 14 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Aboriginals .
26 However , those who lost their virginity earlier are four times as likely to be smokers than those who lost it late — suggesting a pattern of people who are impulsive in more ways than one .
27 An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) .
28 Even in the professional/vocational group , librarians were four times more likely to be unemployed than architects .
29 Children who travel to school by bus or coach are 20 times less likely to be injured in an accident than when they travel by car .
30 His life expectancy is falling and he is seven times as likely to be murdered as a white boy .
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