Example sentences of "five times as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 2 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 3 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 4 | km , will probably cost around $3000 , five times as much as the price for data From the scanner . |
| 5 | These figures mask large differences between individual LEAs : the highest-spending authorities spent almost five times as much as the lowest-spending ones . |
| 6 | A comparison of the performance of the standard in-rack , detector-operated zoned , and ‘ intermediate ’ zoned systems is made in Appendix I , and shows that the full zoned system is about five times as effective as the ‘ standard ’ in-rack system in terms of fire damage and water used to gain fire control . |
| 7 | In this case , Rosat observations suggest that the ratio of baryon mass to total mass within 3 megaparsecs is about 25 per cent , which is five times as large as the cosmological ratio in the standard model . |
| 8 | Teenagers who conceived pre-maritally were five times as likely as the average to have been conceived pre-maritally themselves . |