Example sentences of "three times the size [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | At the end of the Boulevard there sits the enormous Catherine Palace , baroque and three times the size of the Alexander Palace . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ It will be three times the size of the largest carrack which sails the Inner Sea , ’ he said . |
8 | The conversion process requires free space equivalent to three times the size of the file being converted . |
9 | 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 ) . |
10 | The device was three times the size of the Baltic Exchange bomb and would have devastated buildings within three hundred yards . |