Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [adj] price " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 42 cases the Canadian price was the highest in the world . |
| 2 | The exact cost , and hence the viability , of the energy source remains to be determined , though it is projected to be about 10 pence a unit , five times the existing price of coal but only twice the cost of nuclear power . |
| 3 | We made two sales last year at around four times the highest price paid for Chadwick at auction . |
| 4 | ‘ The company is not going bust , assets are four times the current price and the yield on a cut dividend is over three times the UK average . ’ |
| 5 | Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends . |
| 6 | There was a hotel , where you could buy an alcoholic drink , but there was only one variety of beer , which you would have to drink from the bottle at five times the English price . |
| 7 | He refuses to raise the real price of Ecuador 's hugely subsidised petrol , even though the beneficiaries include Peruvian smugglers who sell the fuel across the border for ten times the Ecuadorean price . |
| 8 | ( At present , securities houses offer their private clients the best price in the market , even if they are not offering it on their screens . ) |
| 9 | Despite the fact that small companies promise substantially faster growth , the survey revealed that for large companies the median price to earnings ratio was a heady 20.6 , compared with 15.4 for smaller firms . |
| 10 | Some of the oil companies operating in the UK disputed the British Gas view of the future suggesting that abundant reserves exist in the southern part of the North Sea and maintained that the reason a shortfall was in prospect was British Gas 's disinclination to pay suppliers the same price for UK produced gas as for imported gas . |
| 11 | Some contracts were , on average , overpriced ; while for others the average price was too low . |