Example sentences of "time as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , look , okay , look at these two bars of chocolate that you 've got , there re , looking at it they 're going to be a about the same price , you 're not going to find one ten times as dear as the other , are you ? |
| 2 | The average US company spent seven times as much and the Germans 14 times as much . |
| 3 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 4 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 5 | Part of the text stated ‘ … one atom of it weight 235 times as much as an atom of hydrogen , [ U 235 ] releases energy automatically directly it is touched by cold water ’ . |
| 6 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 7 | km , will probably cost around $3000 , five times as much as the price for data From the scanner . |
| 8 | In my letter I mentioned the particular case of the Times Motoring correspondent who found that the return Brighton — Birmingham rail fare would cost him four times as much as the price of petrol for a car journey , despite driving a not especially economical car . |
| 9 | Polgar 's approach to teaching is , he says , that ‘ the pleasure of the accomplishment must be several times as much as the experience of failure . ’ |
| 10 | The richest in the land can pay only three times as much as the person in the most lowly valued , difficult-to-let council house . |
| 11 | Can cost anything over 10 times as much as the yardstick rugs . |
| 12 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 13 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 14 | Poor as it is , Greece still spends 6.2% of its annual income on defence , almost three times as much as the average for the European Community . |
| 15 | The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel . |
| 16 | Ader Tajan , the company in which Jacques Tajan is a partner along with auctioneers , brothers Remi and Antoine Ader , is expected to record business of FFr319 million for 1992 as against a target of FFr350 million and nearly three times as much when the market peaked in 1989 . |
| 17 | Their representation ( at 40% ) among homeless acceptances by local authorities is ten times as great as the proportion they form of the community ( 4% in 1987 ) . |
| 18 | At the ‘ surface ’ of this black hole the pull of gravity would be about 1,600 million billion times as great as the pull we normally experience . |
| 19 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 20 | These social-class differences are even more marked for younger husbands , where the unskilled manual rate is 5.5 times as great as the incidence in the professional category . |
| 21 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 22 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 23 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 24 | It is very luminous — at least 50000 times as powerful as the Sun , and therefore much superior to Betelgeux , though it is much further away ( over 1500 light-years ) . |
| 25 | Zeta Persei is very luminous and remote ( over 15000 times as powerful as the Sun ) . |
| 26 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 27 | In this way , by successive doublings , they managed to evolve a strain of RNA that could self-replicate in very high concentrations of ethidium bromide , 10 times as concentrated as the poison that had inhibited the original ancestral V2 RNA . |
| 28 | The Hwange national park alone is said to have 45,000 elephants : three times as many as the vegetation can support . |
| 29 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 30 | A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man . |