Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , their ‘ epidemic ’ model proposes that , from a stable endemic baseline , the number of new cases of heroin use ( incidence ) in a community increases rapidly for four years before peaking at ten times the level of initial endemic incidence in year five , and then dropping sharply to the previous endemic level during years six and seven ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 2 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 3 | O K , so financial underwriting , is on a hundred thousand and above , you look at four times salary . |
| 4 | The shares will be valued at 9.85 times estimated earnings , and yield 5 per cent gross on a 1p notional dividend this year . |
| 5 | Bull reckons its systems integration business is growing at three times the market rate and claims to be the fourth largest systems integration business in Europe . |
| 6 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 7 | The shares in the composite index are selling at 16 times prospective earnings . |
| 8 | The company was floated shortly after that with the shares selling at six times the auditors ' valuation . |
| 9 | British Gas is selling at eight times earnings while British Telecom commands a 9.5 rating . |
| 10 | Shares are selling at 23 times earnings , their highest since 1926 . |
| 11 | This is pretty low for a speculative investment and assumes the company is capitalised at 12.5 times earnings in the year to 31 March 2017 . |
| 12 | With the resources devoted throughout the world to military R&D running at five times the total for medical research , ever more lethal weapons systems seem bound to emerge . |
| 13 | In the required circuit ( figure , part ( A ) ) , a clock signal running at 16 times the desired carrier frequency drives the 4-binary counter IC1 . |
| 14 | Housing association output will soon be running at three times the level that it was in the 1970s . |
| 15 | New generations of memory chips normally arrive at 30–40 times the price of the industry 's mainstream product . |
| 16 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 17 | The cost of the next stage after JET has been put at five times the cost of the Culham experiment and this would suggest the need for even wider collaboration . |
| 18 | The support facilities on shore for a 200-machine 600 MW cluster of wind generators would be around £25 million while transmission costs were estimated at four times that for a conventional 600 MW power station ( all at mid-1979 prices ) . |
| 19 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 20 | The tariff for goods carriage now stood at 20,000 times previous rates , but this still fell far below the cost-of-living index due to astronomical inflation . |
| 21 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |