Example sentences of "three time as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | According to the government 's own statistics , the richest one percent of the population own three times as much as the poorest 50 percent put together . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only four of these followed the standard guidelines of WHO , and the prescribed regimens cost three times as much as the standard protocols . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lysine 85 , indicated by a double asterisk , was three times as protected as the other lysines . |
| 11 | The Hwange national park alone is said to have 45,000 elephants : three times as many as the vegetation can support . |
| 12 | It has three times as many as the Metropolitan Museum in New York . |
| 13 | The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week . |
| 15 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |
| 16 | By 1872 the free coloured population in Brazil was almost three times as large as the slave population , and even among pure Negroes the two groups were almost equal in number . |
| 17 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |