Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 2 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 3 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 4 | In all eight cases the diarrhoea continued for over 21 days , in five it persisted for more than three months . |
| 5 | Across the Atlantic , the Boston Herald described the price of $95 million — 1.8 times the book value on 31 January — as ‘ a little expensive but worthwhile to Citizens . ’ |
| 6 | Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher . |
| 7 | The highest values have been recorded at Holme Moss in the Pennines ( 43kg/S/ha , eight times the level ) and at a site in Galloway with 31.4kg/S/ha . |
| 8 | The 50p increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , sparked a wave of protest and accusations of a ‘ tax on the sick ’ and ‘ rationing by stealth ’ . |
| 9 | The 13 per cent increase , almost eight times the level of inflation , has been roundly condemned by doctors , nurses , pharmacists and opposition MPs . |
| 10 | ‘ Draw ’ large circles eight times one way , and eight times the other . |
| 11 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 12 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
| 13 | The total weight of fine sediment undergoing analysis is fifty times the sediment extracted in the initial ( 58 s ) sample . |
| 14 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 15 | Then after eight months the strike collapsed in Nottinghamshire . |
| 16 | Even after eight months the nerve was there . |
| 17 | The motor control routine shown in Fig. 8.3 is entered with the number of steps loaded into accumulator A ( if the number of steps can not be expressed within the confines of an eight.bit word corresponding to 256 steps the routine must be executed several times ) and the index register X pointing at a location in the list between ENDLOW and ENDHI . |
| 18 | New generations of memory chips normally arrive at 30–40 times the price of the industry 's mainstream product . |
| 19 | The funeral passed off without incident , and by 1630 hours the majority of the platoon was able to return to Omagh , leaving a section under the command of the platoon commander to cover the post-funeral gathering in the church hall . |
| 20 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 21 | However , even simple estimates for the W particle suggest that it should weigh in at something like 30 times the proton 's mass . |
| 22 | Both VGA and Super VGA monitors are supported and the manufacturer 's claim that the Grizzled Skipper accelerator board is capable of almost 30 times the speed performance of the standard VGA controller card . |
| 23 | Zeta , below the British horizon , has an O-type spectrum , and is highly luminous , with at least 55000 times the output of the Sun . |
| 24 | At about 0230 hours the fishing vessel-cum-yacht Guiding Lights , which had figured on our suspect list since 1974 , but had never been sighted in British waters , sailed into the trap , heaving-to off Talland Bay , about half a mile off shore . |
| 25 | After 30 minutes the amount of PABA was determined with an assay system for urinary PABA . |
| 26 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 27 | The arms are distinctly noded , short , about 3–4 times the disk diameter . |
| 28 | 2 times the rate of inflation is difficult to swallow . |
| 29 | Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs . |
| 30 | Experts point out that the largest vessels are now 15-20 times the size of those at the time the Montreux Convention was signed . |