Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] as [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weights were derived from hospital bed utilization rates in each age-sex category ; if , for example , elderly women accounted for three times as many bed-days as middle-aged men , they counted three times as heavily in calculating the weighted population total . |
| 2 | However , it drills three times as fast with only one third of the effort required with a normal percussion drill . |
| 3 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 4 | The increased sophistication of the system used by dolphins is necessary because sound travels nearly five times as fast in water as in air . |
| 5 | ‘ A worldwide recession is no excuse for these disastrous figures , unemployment is rising four times as fast in the UK as in the rest of Europe . |