Example sentences of "[adj] time [adv] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , at room temperature a diamond has a thermal conductivity about six times higher than a piece of copper . |
| 2 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A human neurone is about a million times slower than a switch in a digital computer . |
| 5 | The piece of branch was thirty times longer than a nome . |
| 6 | Lasers run at 300 dots per inch , about four times better than a matrix printer . |
| 7 | This is equivalent to five days ' trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange , 2.5 times more than a couple of years ago . |
| 8 | We , in our turn , live 70 times longer than the smallest mammal , the shrew , and 1200 times longer than a fly . |