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1 We , in our turn , live 70 times longer than the smallest mammal , the shrew , and 1200 times longer than a fly .
2 A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization .
3 Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time .
4 It was some eight minutes later before the ‘ phone in Sister 's office was used .
5 Multi-party talks at Codesa ( the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ) broke down eight months ago when the ANC walked out after the massacre of more than 40 of its sympathisers in Boipatong township by followers of the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party .
6 And 32 months longer than the board hopes to take .
7 Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction .
8 Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 .
9 The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images .
10 For example , the smallest mammal , the shrew , lives its life about 30 times faster than the elephant .
11 But the alarm was only raised 30 hours later when a hotelier phoned to ask why their reservations had not been taken up .
12 Wages average approximately 7 to 12 times less than the corresponding rates in the USA .
13 The merest traces of various gases exist at the surface of Mercury , amounting to about 10 12 times less than the mass of the Earth 's atmosphere and which can be entirely accounted for by capture from the solar wind and by the radioactive decay of certain isotopes in the surface materials .
14 The Renoir NT is up to 12 times faster than the fastest VGA with resolutions of 1280x1024 in 16 colour mode and 1024X 768 in 256 colour mode …
15 The War Wagon itself can sustain 5 wounds as shown on its profile ; this is 2 wounds more than a chariot to take into account its heavier construction .
16 Railway authorities were particularly concerned over tickets getting into the wrong hands ; a minor sensation was caused on the Southern Region or BR about 30 years ago when a blank ticket from South Snowdon on the former Welsh Highland Railway was handed in at Clapham Junction .
17 The pioneering work of Whipple in 1945 began an era of portosystemic shunt surgery for portal hypertension which remained the primary form of treatment for nearly 30 years even though the consequences of portal diversion such as liver atrophy and encephalopathy were soon recognised .
18 The legendary mole hole was exposed 30 years later when a startled construction crew smashed into it .
19 That occurred some 30 years earlier when the San Diego Open Tournament in California made headline news .
20 I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind .
21 The dispute should have been settled 53 years ago when the 1930 Reservoirs Act ruled that the owners of all reservoirs containing more than 23 million litres must have them inspected and repaired regularly .
22 All you need for a marker is a Fishing Gazette pike bung or a piece of polystyrene tied to a stone with a length of line about 12 inches longer than the depth of swim .
23 In 1901 the Congregationalists ' Western and Hackney Colleges had only fourteen and twenty-one students respectively while the Baptists ' Nottingham and Bristol colleges had only eleven and twenty-one .
24 The mail coaches which were introduced in 1783 went at around 8 miles an hour , 2 miles faster than the riding horses .
25 The 200 metres qualifying standard is 23.20 secs 0.16 secs faster than her personal best and 0.26 secs quicker than the best by a British runner this year .
26 In his absence , the 200 metres final was won by Allyn Condon of Sale in 21.75 secs 0.70 secs slower than the personal best Gookey recorded in the UK Championships .
27 Mrs Andrews and the boys were then driven to isolated woods 30 miles away while a frantic Mr Andrews , who was told his sons would be castrated if he failed to co-operate , delivered the ransom .
28 It was little more than Rangers deserved when they took the lead 10 minutes later when the impressive Sinton played a delightful one-two with Holloway before scoring with a rasping drive .
29 They were gifted a goal six minutes later when a John Clark free-kick was touched on by Ferguson and Paddy Connolly nipped in through the static Celtic defence to lift the ball over Pat Bonner .
30 Recent reports indicate that only 100 houses rather than the projected 200 per annum have been provided which suggests a rather slow take-off ( Gilg 1981 , p. 110 ) .
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