Example sentences of "[adj] time [adv] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 2 | For example , the smallest mammal , the shrew , lives its life about 30 times faster than the elephant . |
| 3 | In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) . |
| 4 | The merest traces of various gases exist at the surface of Mercury , amounting to about 10 12 times less than the mass of the Earth 's atmosphere and which can be entirely accounted for by capture from the solar wind and by the radioactive decay of certain isotopes in the surface materials . |
| 5 | The one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier than the evening on which he was involved . |
| 6 | In fact , at room temperature a diamond has a thermal conductivity about six times higher than a piece of copper . |
| 7 | The steel blades are protected by a Mylar coating for wear resistance , giving protection up to 10 times longer than the blade 's normal life . |
| 8 | Between 5 and 10 times more than the yardstick rugs . |
| 9 | Their research , detailed in Sick to Death of Homelessness , shows the death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population , with more than 600 dying on the streets last year . |
| 10 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 11 | The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits . |
| 12 | Cost 3 to 5 times more than the yardstick items , and include Persian-style Chinese rugs and some of the better quality items from India and Pakistan . |
| 13 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 14 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 15 | Work ten times harder than the person who 's not getting the luck . |
| 16 | Mark Hammonds , marketing executive of BP Solar , recommends that a regulator should be included in a generating circuit if the capacity of the 12V battery is less than 50 times higher than the peak output current of the generator . |
| 17 | This will churn some 50 times faster than the version currently used in the nCube 2 , with a clock rate that tops 50MHz and a floating point performance of 100 MFLOPS . |
| 18 | How stable is a system where the amounts of money whizzing around the foreign exchanges in search of a quick fix are 50 times more than the total needed to finance the whole of world trade ? |
| 19 | Health bosses say his his night payments are five times higher than the average . |
| 20 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 21 | A human neurone is about a million times slower than a switch in a digital computer . |
| 22 | The piece of branch was thirty times longer than a nome . |
| 23 | Local press reports suggest that forest reserves are currently being exploited four times faster than the law allows . |
| 24 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 25 | According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large . |
| 26 | Manchester University 's Computing Centre will soon boast the largest single computational node in the UK when it replaces its VP1200 supercomputer with a VPX240/10 machine from Fujitsu Systems Business ( Europe ) : it is the first Fujitsu VPX machine to be sold in the UK since launch last year 's launch and features one scalar processor , one 2.5GFLOPS vector processor , 1Gb main memory , 1Gb of secondary memory ; it is four times faster than the five-year-old system it is replacing and will be used for computational fluid dynamics and engineering research ; delivery is planned for July ; no price was given . |
| 27 | Lasers run at 300 dots per inch , about four times better than a matrix printer . |
| 28 | three or four times better than the civilian 's |
| 29 | This is equivalent to five days ' trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange , 2.5 times more than a couple of years ago . |
| 30 | We , in our turn , live 70 times longer than the smallest mammal , the shrew , and 1200 times longer than a fly . |