Example sentences of "times greater than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British governments had no strength to resist these arguments , and as a consequence the North Sea Oil installations , working literally at break-neck speed unfettered by safety regulations comparable to those operating on-shore , had a fatality rate eleven times greater than the construction industry , nine times higher than mining , and six times greater than quarrying . |
| 2 | The outcome has been that , over the past fifteen years , there has been ‘ a huge expropriation of accumulated labour , several times greater than the expropriation which immediately followed the war ’ . |
| 3 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 4 | As these projects are mutually exclusive only one can be chosen , and therefore Project B is the preferred option as it has a positive NPV of £12,430 , which is 14 times greater than the return earned by Project A. |
| 5 | The odds against a " yes " answer for questions like Question 1 are many billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the universe . |
| 6 | Thus the temperature increase at high latitudes experienced during global warming should be two or three times greater than the warming experienced in the tropics , where enhanced convection , carrying sensible heat away from the ground , acts as a negative feedback . |
| 7 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 8 | It said the figure was four times greater than the estimate made recently by the independent Henley Centre , and that the company was " ruthlessly exploiting the jobs issue " . |