Example sentences of "three times [adv] likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 17 years of age the children of obese parents are three times more likely to be obese than children of thin parents . |
| 2 | In 1983 , for example , men working full time were three times more likely to be covered than were men working part time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here , motorists are now three times more likely to be breathalysed than in 1978 , and around 2,000 drivers are prosecuted every week . |
| 5 | Specialists were three times more likely to be continuing their studies , mainly registering for PhD higher degrees . |
| 6 | As a result in some parts of the country you 're three times more likely to be cautioned than in others . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Retarded children were over three times as likely to be disturbed as children in the comparison group ( 23 per cent versus 7 per cent ) . |