Example sentences of "[num] times more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 2 | When the ancestral cetaceans returned to the sea , they had to adapt to the much colder temperatures of water , which conducts heat 26 times more efficiently than air . |
| 3 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 4 | Industrial prices by then had risen two to three times more quickly than agricultural ones . |
| 5 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 6 | Peck in his bull-running pamphlet of 1723 insults the bullards by saying they were ‘ habited Ten Thousand Times more nastily than so many Witches on a Plow Monday ’ . |
| 7 | To take advantage of that large amount of fuel , we have to develop what are there is the fast reactors , and this is Britain 's fast reactor a fast reactor erm uses energy erm about sixty time uses uranium about sixty times more efficiently than the present type of reactors not sixty percent but sixty times so it obviously has tremendous implications for uranium resources . |
| 8 | Over all , the white actor was preferred ten times more often than the black one . |
| 9 | Kurata et al reported that duodenal ulcers were diagnosed 2.5 times more frequently than gastric ulcers in Los Angeles , California . |
| 10 | Hiatal hernia occurred in asthmatics with oesophagitis seven times more frequently than it occurred in asthmatics without oesophagitis ( odds ratio=7.0 ; confidence interval=3.5–14.2 ; χ 2 =33.2 ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 11 | In asthmatics with oesophagitis , a hiatal hernia occurred seven times more frequently than in asthmatics without oesophagitis . |
| 12 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |