Example sentences of "three times the size of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . |
| 4 | The take-over of Mothercare , despite the fact it was three times the size of Habitat , seemed to make a lot of sense . |
| 5 | The appraiser reckoned that the Benton work was three times the size of Daugherty 's . |
| 6 | 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 . |