Example sentences of "time as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , look , okay , look at these two bars of chocolate that you 've got , there re , looking at it they 're going to be a about the same price , you 're not going to find one ten times as dear as the other , are you ? |
| 2 | As is the norm in such projects , every job turned out twice as extensive and umpteen times as expensive as the most pessimistic estimates . |
| 3 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 4 | The average US company spent seven times as much and the Germans 14 times as much . |
| 5 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 6 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 7 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 8 | Part of the text stated ‘ … one atom of it weight 235 times as much as an atom of hydrogen , [ U 235 ] releases energy automatically directly it is touched by cold water ’ . |
| 9 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |
| 10 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 11 | Polgar 's approach to teaching is , he says , that ‘ the pleasure of the accomplishment must be several times as much as the experience of failure . ’ |
| 12 | The top bills will be only 2.5 times as much as the lowest bills , and the highest band is for houses worth over £160,000 ( $274,000 ) . |
| 13 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 14 | According to the government 's own statistics , the richest one percent of the population own three times as much as the poorest 50 percent put together . |
| 15 | It is estimated that this will cost 10 times as much as the original research . |
| 16 | km , will probably cost around $3000 , five times as much as the price for data From the scanner . |
| 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 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 19 | Poor as it is , Greece still spends 6.2% of its annual income on defence , almost three times as much as the average for the European Community . |
| 20 | Can cost anything over 10 times as much as the yardstick rugs . |
| 21 | Only four of these followed the standard guidelines of WHO , and the prescribed regimens cost three times as much as the standard protocols . |
| 22 | These figures mask large differences between individual LEAs : the highest-spending authorities spent almost five times as much as the lowest-spending ones . |
| 23 | The richest in the land can pay only three times as much as the person in the most lowly valued , difficult-to-let council house . |
| 24 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 25 | In my letter I mentioned the particular case of the Times Motoring correspondent who found that the return Brighton — Birmingham rail fare would cost him four times as much as the price of petrol for a car journey , despite driving a not especially economical car . |
| 26 | The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel . |
| 27 | Ader Tajan , the company in which Jacques Tajan is a partner along with auctioneers , brothers Remi and Antoine Ader , is expected to record business of FFr319 million for 1992 as against a target of FFr350 million and nearly three times as much when the market peaked in 1989 . |
| 28 | Their representation ( at 40% ) among homeless acceptances by local authorities is ten times as great as the proportion they form of the community ( 4% in 1987 ) . |
| 29 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 30 | At the ‘ surface ’ of this black hole the pull of gravity would be about 1,600 million billion times as great as the pull we normally experience . |