Example sentences of "three times the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Drugs Council clients had over twice the proportion of ‘ two bag ’ daily users ( 22 per cent against 9 per cent ) compared to clients of the Detoxification Unit , whereas the latter agency had nearly three times the proportion of 1 gram per day users ( 14 per cent against 5 per cent ) . |
| 2 | The £100m spent by the tobacco industry on advertising is not three times the budget of the Health Promotion Agency . |
| 3 | It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances . |
| 4 | Sinclair claims his flat TV gives three times the brightness of a normal tube of the same size with one tenth the power . |
| 5 | How can the Institute justify charging its members in excess of three times the cost of comparable courses ? |
| 6 | 6 : According to the House of Commons Energy Committee , the price of PWR-generated electricity will be 6.5p per unit ( even with interest on borrowed money during construction omitted ) , two to three times the cost of fossil-fuel generation . |
| 7 | The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) . |
| 8 | The estimated actual AIDS figure was more than three times the total of reported cases , which had reached 418,403 from 163 countries . |
| 9 | The Gt1x 8-bit two-dimensional graphics adaptor offers two to three times the performance of the Gt1 ; most products ship May 28 , but the 23T follows June 4 , and the 23E upgrade and GT1x on the 220 are July 16 . |
| 10 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 11 | The Gt1x 8-bit two-dimensional graphics adaptor offers two to three times the performance of the Gt1 ; most products ship May 28 , but the 23T follows June 4 , and the 23E upgrade and GT1x on the 220 are July 16 . |
| 12 | Electronic News hears that the new MasPar machine will offer three times the performance of the company 's two-year-old MP-1 system , but at the same price . |
| 13 | Motorola rates the new board at 70 Specmarks on the Specmark89 benchmark , which reflects both integer and floating point performance — about three times the performance of the comparable 88100-based MVME187 board . |
| 14 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 15 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |
| 16 | The industry is dominated by Michelin , Goodyear and Bridgestone , each two to three times the size of either Continental or Pirelli . |
| 17 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 18 | It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour . |
| 19 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
| 20 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
| 21 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 22 | At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Morgan Jr. , who in 1924 established his father 's library as a public institution now houses a book shop , education centre , lecture hall , staff offices and a conservation studio three times the size of the old one . |
| 25 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
| 26 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The conversion process requires free space equivalent to three times the size of the file being converted . |
| 28 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |