Example sentences of "to [num] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the upper levels of the hills the occasional pools had grown to three times their normal size , and turned every bowl of rushy upland into marsh , where the army laboured perilously for every half-mile of painful progress . |
| 2 | In 1885 France was in possession of a colonial empire which , in 25 years , had grown to three times its original size . |
| 3 | Leave until it rises to three times its initial volume , then cook in a preheated oven ( 220C/425F/Gas 7 ) for 30 mins . |
| 4 | Later the mill was leased to three partners whose cloth-making business went bankrupt in 1786 . |
| 5 | The River Avon , having swollen to ten times its usual size , floods Hilperton , near Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 6 | Professor Robert E. Ornstein of the University of California , a recognised expert in left and right brain research , has proved that when you develop the second side of your brain you actually enhance your mental powers by anything from five to ten times its previous level . |
| 7 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 8 | Normally pear-sized , the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy . |
| 9 | Levels of ClO climbed to five times their normal concentration between latitudes 40 and 60 degrees north between December 1988 and February 1989 . |
| 10 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 11 | The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . |
| 12 | In any 10-year period managers should only be granted options on shares worth up to four times their annual earnings . |
| 13 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
| 14 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |