Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final report — almost eight times as long as the interim — was able to cover the same ground in more detail and also to extend the coverage to a wide range of ethnic minority groups . |
| 2 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 3 | The radial shields are long and thin , about 3–4 times as long as broad , separated from one another and recessed into the disk . |
| 4 | The radial shields are 3–4 times as long as broad , extending to just over half the radius of the disk . |
| 5 | The arms are 3–4 times as long as the disk diameter . |
| 6 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 7 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |
| 8 | Financial employment rose by 41% in the 1980s , faster than in any English city except Bristol , and six times as fast as non-financial employment . |
| 9 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 10 | They wo n't get anything until six months later anyway cos I did n't . |
| 11 | He led the way about six feet further up where the path ended in a flat ledge , and then I could see what had happened . |
| 12 | By using computer technology , James Capel 's FT-SE 100 Index Fund aims to match the performance of the index of the UK 's top 100 companies as closely as possible . |
| 13 | Parliament changed the law 10 years ago simply because so many drivers were abusing it . |
| 14 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 15 | It 's been good to play in the six games so far and you do n't want to miss any at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 16 | It 's been good to play in the six games so far and you do n't want to miss any at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 17 | Massine interprets these chords by setting six dancers about the stage and on each chord the six men either singly or together , and in turn , rise into a tour en l ’ air finishing in a pose . |
| 18 | Although the amount of his fine was fixed at 2,000 marks as early as October 1292 , he remained in prison in the Tower and later in Winchester Castle till 1294 , when his release was obtained in return for a promise by Henry and his sureties to pay the fine off at the rate of 300 marks a year . |
| 19 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 20 | Industrial prices by then had risen two to three times more quickly than agricultural ones . |
| 21 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 22 | Lysine 85 is protected almost three times as well as any other lysine in H5 . |
| 23 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 24 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |
| 25 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 26 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 27 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 28 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 29 | In 1558 , he worked up his letter into a second edition , three times as long as the first , which he certainly wrote as an outright attack ; and his portrayal of the dowager in his History of Scotland is one of hacking savagery . |
| 30 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |