Example sentences of "times [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 2 | Few reports about this species are received annually , but these suggest that it is some three to four times scarcer than the Common Partridge . |
| 3 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 4 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 5 | But with a very , very heavy star — several times heavier than the Sun — the gravity would be so strong , nothing would be able to resist it . |
| 6 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 7 | A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt 's tail , the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one . |
| 8 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 9 | Her head is large with a substantial brain many times bigger than the tiny knot of nerve cells that is all that a worker possesses . |
| 10 | To predict the universe , you 'd need a computer many times bigger than the universe . ’ |
| 11 | Also I think you 'd find that the erm er although , now I 'm suggesting you do this , but if you went through the Independent and you counted the erm number of different words the total vocabulary , I think you 'd find it 's many many many many many many many times bigger than the |
| 12 | It is blueish in colour , six times larger than a chicken 's egg , and about to make ornithological history . |
| 13 | Eight times larger than a lion , the griffin has an acute sense of hearing , and its talons are highly prized for their ability to change colour when they come into contact with poison . |
| 14 | The object that it is looking at will be many times larger than a single receptive field . |
| 15 | It will be at least three times larger than the first show , held last year , and will represent every area of self build , from finance to land plots , as well as house design ‘ packages ’ and most related building and interior products . |
| 16 | Quite often , olivine and pyroxene begin to crystallize out early on , so they may be present in the final rock as quite large crystals , up to a centimetre across , many times larger than the crystals surrounding them , and easily visible with the naked eye . |
| 17 | The resulting images are ten times larger than the conventional 35mm kind . |
| 18 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 19 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 20 | This dimension is at least 100 times larger than the measured values of ( 0 ) , and therefore guarantees that physical parameters measured on these samples reflect intrinsic properties . |
| 21 | Their numbers expanded rapidly until there were 66 daidan in Java and another three in Bali : a total not far short of 35000 ( five times larger than the BNA ) . |
| 22 | The flunkey hesitated , then responded by answering the last question first — with a figure that was nearly four times larger than the largest sum I had thought I might try asking . |
| 23 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 24 | For a group of five organisations monitored over a period of 13 to 18 weeks the hidden , uninsured costs of accidents at work were identified as 8 to 36 times larger than the insured costs . |
| 25 | However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured . |
| 26 | Greenpeace alleged in September 1990 that illegal toxic waste imports to the UK were three times larger than the legal trade . |
| 27 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 28 | This indicates , that for an incompressible elastic solid , i.e. one having a Poisson ratio of 0.5 , Young 's modulus is three times larger than the shear modulus . |
| 29 | Greenpeace has published an analysis showing that an illicit trade in toxic waste exists which is estimated to be three times larger than the legal trade . |
| 30 | However it can be up to 1000 times larger if the host is amorphous , or non crystalline . |