Example sentences of "[num] times the size of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |
| 4 | The capital was distinguished from provincial cities and towns on three counts : it was at least five times the size of any other , almost ten times as rich , and possessed a vastly more complex social and occupational structure . |
| 5 | High-precision laboratories can produce results with error terms of less than plus/minus 20 years ; they employ very carefully controlled measurement procedures , but they also require samples three to four times the size of those used by normal-precision , conventional laboratories . |
| 6 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |