Example sentences of "[num] times the size of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The most dramatic increase has been in the former Soviet Union , where the area of land under forest rose by 70 million hectares — three times the size of Britain — over the past 25 years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
| 5 | Its initial aim is the establishment of a national park , three times the size of Belgium , in the Upper Solimnoes River region of western Amazonia . |
| 6 | Sudan is Africa 's largest country with an area of almost a million square miles , ten times the size of Great Britain . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 10 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 11 | The new nature reserve will be the area of Middlesbrough and more than seven times the size of Hyde Park . |
| 12 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |