Example sentences of "[adj] times [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 2 | Trees such as poplars , elms , limes and oaks account for much shrinkage in soil and should not be closer to the building than 1.5 times their own height . |
| 3 | Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry , this is a remarkable achievement . |
| 4 | The return of women to the homefront to live in varying degrees of poverty has been paralleled by an intensification of family-centred propaganda to remind us that women are the ‘ natural ’ homemakers , and that in difficult and unsettled times our prime responsibility is to make sure that our men and our children and our dependent relatives are properly cared for . |
| 5 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 6 | Johnson & Johnson in Canada is currently making sanitary towels out of the stuff ( peat moss soaks up 12 times its own weight of liquid ) . |
| 7 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 8 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 9 | Sberbank has asked the government to give each depositor cash equal to three times his deposit on January 1st 1992 , as well as a ten-year bond worth 21 times his average deposit in 1992 . |
| 10 | In the upper levels of the hills the occasional pools had grown to three times their normal size , and turned every bowl of rushy upland into marsh , where the army laboured perilously for every half-mile of painful progress . |
| 11 | And since it is generally recognised that managers cost their companies at least three times their annual salary , the scope for cost-saving is enormous . |
| 12 | Grand Trunk shares traded at around three times their nominal value . |
| 13 | Three paintings fetched three times their expected price , going for over a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Houck had personally followed the histories of two reactors in Missouri ( Callaway ) and Kansas ( Wolf Creek ) which were prototypes for Hinkley C. Both had cost three times their original budget — $3 billion apiece — and had been plagued with teething problems in their first few years of operation . |
| 15 | Heads of government of CIS member states , meeting in Moscow on Feb. 8 , signed five documents on economic matters , including a five-year agreement on the free transit of goods between CIS states , a ban on the re-export to third states of goods traded between CIS states for domestic consumption , and steep increases in freight and passenger rail costs , to , respectively , 8.3 and three times their end-1991 levels . |
| 16 | With 1,465 golf courses now in operation and planning approval granted for 762 more , the heyday of farmers selling their land for three times its agricultural value may be past . |
| 17 | Her head was three times its normal size , one huge , crusty , black blister , her eyes like two slit tennis balls , and the lower half of her face seemed to have no features at all except enormous fat black lips that covered her nostrils and chin . |
| 18 | With this award the Programme will be expanded to more than three times its present size and become one of the University 's most important academic developments . |
| 19 | The storage area for raw materials , packaging and finished products is also being increased , by three times its present size , greatly reducing our reliance on external warehousing . |
| 20 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 21 | Leave until it rises to three times its initial volume , then cook in a preheated oven ( 220C/425F/Gas 7 ) for 30 mins . |
| 22 | Even so , the IMF 's new figures still lift China 's share in world output to 6% — three times its previous weight , making it the world 's third-biggest economy behind America ( 22.5% ) and Japan ( 7.6% ) . |
| 23 | Shadow Education Secretary Ann Taylor accused the Government of cutting back on spending on school repairs but spending £6.8 million — almost three times its original budget — on education publicity . |
| 24 | In 1885 France was in possession of a colonial empire which , in 25 years , had grown to three times its original size . |
| 25 | Most lenders will advance three times your annual income ( some go to 3.5 times , others limits it to 2.5 ) . |
| 26 | And one Chemical Sales Manager said he increased his company profit on his next deal by more than three times his own salary ! |
| 27 | Because of the internal pressure of these reactions , the star swells up to many times its former size to become a ‘ red giant ’ . |
| 28 | This book would be many times its current length had I explained everything in detail . |
| 29 | Li Yuan 's face , many times its natural size , filled the screen . |
| 30 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |