Example sentences of "[noun sg] three [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotch Whisky is a major contributor to the UK trade balance , with a trade surplus three times the current trade surplus for oil ! |
| 2 | During the worst period for external conditions of the whole three years the only book I could get hold of ( and then only after putting my name down on a waiting list ) was Somerset Maugham 's enormous Of Human Bondage . |
| 3 | What is more , on an international comparative basis the level of investment in relation to the achieved rate of growth was not low in the UK — indeed , it was on average three times the German level over the late 1960s and early 1970s [ Cairncross et al. , 1977 ; Williams , 1962 ] . |
| 4 | Senator Dodd , who had attempted to bring more amphetamine use under control , argued that Hoffman-La Roche ‘ paid a Washington law firm three times the annual budget of the Senate subcommittee staff to assure that their drugs would remain uncontrolled ’ ( Graham 1972 : 22 ) . |
| 5 | Resolution three concerns the agreed procedure and service for the ordinat , the electoral statement held as a United , United Reform Presbyterian Church of Wales churches . |