Example sentences of "times the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weight is equal to a hundred times the number of engines . |
| 2 | The weight in kilograms is a hundred times the number of engines we 've got . |
| 3 | The weight of the lorry , see the lorry weighs something itself so its total weight when it 's got its load on is eight hundred plus a hundred times the number of engines on it . |
| 4 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 5 | But it does have seven times the number of homicides . |
| 6 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 7 | This is something like twelve times the number of flights G-BEBP had carried out when the failure occurred . |
| 8 | This is four times the number of cases of AIDS actually reported to the WHO ( 501,272 to April 1992 ) . |
| 9 | Rotorway International reported that a number of aircraft had achieved , without sprocket bolt failure , many times the number of hours at which the bolt on this aircraft failed , but that several failures of these bolts had occurred at a life similar to that at which the failure occurred . |
| 10 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 11 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |