Example sentences of "[num] time as long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final report — almost eight times as long as the interim — was able to cover the same ground in more detail and also to extend the coverage to a wide range of ethnic minority groups . |
| 2 | The radial shields are long and thin , about 3–4 times as long as broad , separated from one another and recessed into the disk . |
| 3 | The radial shields are 3–4 times as long as broad , extending to just over half the radius of the disk . |
| 4 | The arms are 3–4 times as long as the disk diameter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It resembled a huge , tubby fish , about three times as long as I was tall , with thick appendages like fins trying to become legs . |
| 9 | The radial shields are about 1.5–2 times as long as broad , separated for their whole length . |
| 10 | The radial shields are about 3 times as long as broad and fully separated . |
| 11 | The radial shields extend over half the radius of the disk and are about 3 times as long as broad . |
| 12 | The radial shields are about 3 times as long as broad and separated even in smaller specimens . |
| 13 | The adoral shields are about 2–3 times as long as broad , wing-like , nor separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If not then add the cost of your time , charged at your usual rate of pay — and if you are like me then you will take at least five times as long as a garage , because of having less experience and fewer tools ( such as a hoist ) . |
| 17 | Last night , there he was again between the sections of The Greatest Story ( Signals , C4 ) , a kind of Michelin guide to the Hindu poem generally said to be 15 times as long as the Bible ; a fact I am not inclined to check . |
| 18 | This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the longer arms the ventralmost arm spine is elongated , about four times as long as the other spines , and is club shaped . |