Example sentences of "three time as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lysine 85 is protected almost three times as well as any other lysine in H5 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 6 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | In 1558 , he worked up his letter into a second edition , three times as long as the first , which he certainly wrote as an outright attack ; and his portrayal of the dowager in his History of Scotland is one of hacking savagery . |
| 9 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It resembled a huge , tubby fish , about three times as long as I was tall , with thick appendages like fins trying to become legs . |