Example sentences of "time as [adj] [conj] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is estimated that this will cost 10 times as much as the original research . |
| 11 | km , will probably cost around $3000 , five times as much as the price for data From the scanner . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Can cost anything over 10 times as much as the yardstick rugs . |
| 16 | Only four of these followed the standard guidelines of WHO , and the prescribed regimens cost three times as much as the standard protocols . |
| 17 | These figures mask large differences between individual LEAs : the highest-spending authorities spent almost five times as much as the lowest-spending ones . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These social-class differences are even more marked for younger husbands , where the unskilled manual rate is 5.5 times as great as the incidence in the professional category . |
| 27 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 28 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 29 | The thermonuclear ( hydrogen bomb ) warhead on each cruise missile is 10 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 . |
| 30 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |