Example sentences of "time [adv] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does over 2,000 input-output operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says ; it costs $170,000 with 28.8Gb disk . |
| 2 | It does over 2,000 input operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says . |
| 3 | MERSEYSIDE 'S battle against car crime reaped rewards last night when the region revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Merseyside revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 5 | At the Earth 's orbit the number density of ions is typically 10 23 times less than the atmospheric density at the Earth 's surface . |
| 6 | Dataquest , a market-research company based in California , is now forecasting that a 4-megabit chip will cost barely three times more than a 1-megabit chip by next year ( see chart ) . |
| 7 | Five cases of the rare tumour retinoblastoma had been found in these children , 20 times more than the usual number . |
| 8 | Amongst them were the rare white , or pink , variety unique to the Toraja , with china-blue eyes like a Siamese cat , and each worth twenty times more than an ordinary buffalo . |
| 9 | Yet the bay is fabulously productive , many times more than an equal volume of ocean . |
| 10 | Similarly , we should evaluate pains as so many times worse than a minimal pain . |
| 11 | However , a scorpion can detect air moving at 0.072 kilometres per hour — 100 times slower than a light breeze on the Beaufort scale . |
| 12 | Stack emissions of PCBs were below the American standard for breathing air - 1,000 times lower than the British equivalent . |
| 13 | The figures represented an extraordinary proportion by historical standards ( some 10 times higher than the estimated percentage of US friendly fire casualties sustained in any other 20th century war ) , and were three times higher than had been previously admitted . |
| 14 | When this risk is compared to other cancer risks , it is found that the lifelong risk from passive smoking is more than 100 times higher than the estimated effect of 20 years ' exposure to chrysotile asbestos normally found in asbestos-containing buildings [ 5 ] . |
| 15 | The water charges will be up to four times higher than the existing figure of £57 . |
| 16 | According to a report by the Central American Institute of Research and Industrial Technology , Salvadoreans living in the cotton-producing areas suffered from levels of DDT in the body 11 times higher than the corresponding average found in Florida , USA . |
| 17 | Diesel prices on the black markeat are ten times higher than the official price . |
| 18 | These figures are more than 200 times higher than the official toll of 31 deaths as claimed by the former Soviet government . |
| 19 | Levels around Hinckley Point are nearly twice the national average and , between 1969 and 1973 , cases of cancer were four times higher than the national average in people under the age of 25 living in a radius of 12.5km around Hinckley Point . |
| 20 | In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average . |
| 21 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
| 22 | In fact the possession of a high work of fracture — at least a thousand times higher than the free surface energy — is an essential characteristic of all safe and practical structural materials which are used in tension . |
| 23 | Borland International Inc is ready with a new release of its dBase IV database management system for MS-DOS and will announce the release of a MS-DOS compiler for dBase for the end of the month ; according to US PC Week , dBase IV 2.0 is designed to run up to 10 times faster than the previous release and the compiler will enable developers to create dBase III , dBase III Plus and dBase IV executable files that can be distributed to end users . |
| 24 | The first pass produces C code , the second pass results in machine code and bench tests two or three times faster than the previous version . |
| 25 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
| 26 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |