Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adj] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But even in a bad year like that one , US production was nearly eight times greater than the Soviet Union 's . |
| 4 | A database of this size is nearly fifty times greater than the largest that can be stored in a chip-based handheld . |
| 5 | But actually the one at Cornerstone is fifty pound cheaper than the both of them at Hansard . |
| 6 | Find the pull-out torque at 500 steps 51 if the motor is operated with the one-phase-on excitation scheme and the drive circuit has supply voltage 30 V and forcing resistance 9 ohms . |
| 7 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 8 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 9 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 10 | He was born in 1847 and was hence 40–45 years older than the young Expressionists who , less than a decade after the Secession was founded , gave to German painting its characteristically modernist form . |
| 11 | THE MEAN pressure at , for example , Aberdeen and Glasgow in February 1993 was some 22 millibars higher than the previous month 's values , resulting in docile weather for much of Scotland for most of the month , in stark contrast to January 's storms . |
| 12 | The wind comes off the sea so predictably that the first nine , which is played into the wind , was deliberately designed 300 yards shorter than the downwind second nine . |
| 13 | The height of the frame should be at least 2 cm less than the length of the bag so that the bottom of the bag will rest firmly on the surface on which the frame is standing . |
| 14 | In the case of magistrates this was confirmed in Croydon LBC v N and Others [ 1987 ] 2 FLR 61 although the inherent jurisdiction can not be exercised to contravene any statutory provision , regulation or rule binding upon the court . |
| 15 | It is the height of St Paul 's Cathedral , the length of Wembley Stadium and , at 85,000 tonnes , it is 18,000 tonnes heavier than the QE2 . |
| 16 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 17 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 18 | This dimension is at least 100 times larger than the measured values of ( 0 ) , and therefore guarantees that physical parameters measured on these samples reflect intrinsic properties . |
| 19 | The top 20pc of households receive an income ( £786 ) 10 times greater than the poorest 20pc , which lives off £73 a week , with the richest 20pc spending £165.30 a person more than twice as much as the poorest 20pc , who spend £62.50 per person . |
| 20 | The six-axle lorries " six tonnes heavier than the current limit " will only be allowed to transfer freight to and from rail terminals . |
| 21 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 22 | The dates of the parallel drawings exhibition are six weeks shorter than the main show : Wallraf-Richartz Museum , Cologne , until 18 October ; Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts , Antwerp , 12 December 1992 – 24 January 1993 ; Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna , 2 April to 16 May 1993 . |
| 23 | A child 's first lessons occur when she or he is 6 or 7 years old when the ruwang gathers a group of boys and girls together to teach them ta'kwakomena ( consciousness , will , responsibility ) , or basically social morality . |
| 24 | The great architectural exclamation mark of the ‘ endless tower ’ — good 100 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower — comes from the man described by British architectural showman Piers Gough as ‘ the most worshipped architect in France ’ . |
| 25 | Also shown are the ages of the corresponding mare basalts , and you can see that they are several 100 Ma younger than the brecchias . |
| 26 | It is also unique , so a later top can not be used as it is six inches narrower than the Series One . |
| 27 | It was erected on the site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C. When it was built , the castle was at least fifty percent higher than the ruined portion still standing , and was complete with turrets , battlements and curtain walls . |
| 28 | at the cost of single glazing and our price is usually by fifty percent cheaper than the bigger national companies because we do n't advertise and we 're a trade com company and I wondered if we could offer you a free quotation , no obligation whatsoever to buy ? |
| 29 | Its mission was to provide a detailed relief map of the surface by using radar to penetrate the atmosphere , which was 90 times thicker than the Earth 's atmosphere and had a temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit . |
| 30 | 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 . |