Example sentences of "[num] times as [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It resembled a huge , tubby fish , about three times as long as I was tall , with thick appendages like fins trying to become legs . |
| 5 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 6 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 7 | This means that at any frequency , sound waves in water are nearly five times as long as they would be in air , and so provide poorer resolution . |
| 8 | ( It also renders Tongan maps a most inconvenient shape : to accommodate all the Friendly Islands and all the Tongan seas , a scale map has to be about five times as long as it is wide , though nearly all the population and commerce is bunched in the islands in the far south . ) |
| 9 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 10 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 11 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |