Example sentences of "and a half times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 2 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 3 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 4 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 5 | The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed . |
| 6 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 7 | This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income . |
| 8 | And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium . |
| 9 | It reached staggering heights at Boston Park Square ( 1872–4 ) , Worcester , Massachusetts ( 1875–6 ) , Indianapolis Union ( 1886–9 ) , and supremely at Waterbury , Connecticut ( 1909 ) , perhaps the last example , where the campanile duplicated the height of the station building some two and a half times . |
| 10 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |
| 11 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 12 | AN Alton man , who was caught driving while more than two and a half times over the legal alcohol limit , has been banned from the roads for 22 months . |
| 13 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 14 | Remember that accountants and business executives have two and a half times the average death rate from alcohol-related diseases ( doctors , incidentally , have three times the rate ) . |
| 15 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 16 | The relative risk of an overweight baby becoming an overweight 5-year-old is about two and a half times more than for a normal weight baby . |
| 17 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 18 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 19 | The Russia of 1880 lifted less than 1.5 per cent of Europe 's coal ; to the greatly enlarged production of 1900 she contributed 3.6 per cent — about four and a half times as much . |
| 20 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
| 21 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
| 22 | In addition , as users pay one and a half times more per MIPS on an upgrade than on a new machine , their investment is not protected . |
| 23 | Banks which are strong in areas that typically produce long-standing relationships with customers sell at even higher multiples to book : investors pay two and a half times book value for Boston 's State Street and Chicago 's Northern Trust , for example , which specialise in trust services and asset management . |
| 24 | DEC UK 's workstation product manager , Tom Yeates , says sales of VAXstations running VMS exceeded targets by two and a half times over the last quarter , something it attributes to increased confidence in VMS due to the launch of the Alpha chip . |
| 25 | A person 25 per cent over their normal weight range has a two and a half times greater chance of having a heart attack , hypertension , or a stroke . |
| 26 | Even after the market had absorbed the many drawings and watercolours in the McCarty-Cooper sale ( at good prices ) , a Picasso drawing of 1904–5 from Sotheby 's Sidney E. Cohn estate ‘ Etude pour l'acteur et deux profils de Fernando ’ brought $825,000 ( £452,000 ) two and a half times estimates . |
| 27 | Leading brake manufacturers AP Lockheed calculate riders hit more than 1.5g under braking , which means weight of rider and machine is increased one and a half times . |
| 28 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 29 | Between 1958 and 1970 trade among the Six increased five times over , exports to the rest of the world expanded two and a half times , and Gross Domestic Product grew within the EEC at an average of five per cent per annum . |
| 30 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |