Example sentences of "times as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These techniques allow the anisotropic parameters to be estimated more reliably and computed a hundred times as fast as previously . |
| 2 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 3 | Pentium is five times as fast as the Intel 486 chip found in the swiftest of today 's desktop PCs . |
| 4 | The detector zoned system , however , is about four times as fast as the 29th edition system in detection , and requires only about one-fifth of the water for fire control . |
| 5 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 6 | Its commerce was increasing perhaps four times as fast as the rest of the country between 1716 and 1800 . |
| 7 | There were bad times as well as good . |
| 8 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 9 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 10 | A second report , from Christian Aid , another British charity , shows how the West 's policies of subsidised farming can inflict damage on African farmers in good times as well as lean . |
| 11 | Lysine 85 is protected almost three times as well as any other lysine in H5 . |
| 12 | It can include telephone and telex numbers and lead times as well as names , positions and addresses . |
| 13 | The universe would therefore look roughly the same at all times as well as at all points of space . |
| 14 | The response could accompany normal wage times as well as those of high wages . |
| 15 | Our growth over the years is in part due to the company 's commitment to recruitment selection and continued training , both in recessional times as well as in good . |
| 16 | The same missive ( it has characteristic Mr Nice Guy touches like ‘ I hope I have shown that you can trust me in difficult times as well as easier ones ’ ) went to the deputy leader , Coun Bill Dixon . |
| 17 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 18 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 19 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 20 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |
| 21 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 22 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 23 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 24 | Last night , there he was again between the sections of The Greatest Story ( Signals , C4 ) , a kind of Michelin guide to the Hindu poem generally said to be 15 times as long as the Bible ; a fact I am not inclined to check . |
| 25 | In 1558 , he worked up his letter into a second edition , three times as long as the first , which he certainly wrote as an outright attack ; and his portrayal of the dowager in his History of Scotland is one of hacking savagery . |
| 26 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 27 | ( It also renders Tongan maps a most inconvenient shape : to accommodate all the Friendly Islands and all the Tongan seas , a scale map has to be about five times as long as it is wide , though nearly all the population and commerce is bunched in the islands in the far south . ) |
| 28 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 29 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 30 | This means that at any frequency , sound waves in water are nearly five times as long as they would be in air , and so provide poorer resolution . |