Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For XOOX , on the other hand , the species is the only one that contains a mixture of isotopes , so that a sample made from scrambled dioxygen will give three peaks rather than four , and six peaks . |
| 2 | As a result the response time of a program in the real , competitive system can be three times longer than that achieved on a single lexicographer machine . |
| 3 | The radial shields are slightly less than half the disk radius and about three times longer than broad . |
| 4 | The radial shields are roughly three times longer than broad , however in some specimens the extent of the radial shields is difficult to see . |
| 5 | The deficit is now particularly high with Germany : in 1990 it was £6.7 billion , that is three times higher than with any other country . |
| 6 | Their research , detailed in Sick to Death of Homelessness , shows the death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population , with more than 600 dying on the streets last year . |
| 7 | But when both TAP1 a and TAP2 a rat transporter genes were transfected into T2 cells , HLA-A2.1 and HLA-B5 expression was restored to levels two to three times higher than on T1 cells . |
| 8 | The MK/PLFA level in the concretion was two to three times higher than in the mud ( Table 1 ) . |
| 9 | In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average . |
| 10 | The level of failures in the construction industry , which accounted for 30 per cent of all failures , compared with 20 per cent in 1983 , was three times higher than in the third quarter of 1988 . |
| 11 | But despite current theories that ingested radiation may be 20 times more cancer-forming than external radiation , the new limits have been set at up to three times higher than previously accepted . |
| 12 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 13 | The figures represented an extraordinary proportion by historical standards ( some 10 times higher than the estimated percentage of US friendly fire casualties sustained in any other 20th century war ) , and were three times higher than had been previously admitted . |
| 14 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 15 | In rats pretreated with TCV-309 plus caerulein , the content of pancreatic platelet activating factor was significantly ( p<0.05 ) smaller ( 4.5 ( 1.6 ) pg/ 100 mg ) than in those treated with caerulein alone but about three times higher than in saline treated rats . |
| 16 | Upright reflux was three times higher than supine reflux ( median ( range ) 13.3 ( 3.7–35.0 ) % v 3.7 ( 0–37.6 ) %of the time with pH<4.0 , p<0.01 , n=18 ) . |
| 17 | The Thai government itself admits that the lowest reported blood lead levels are three times higher than those in the West . |
| 18 | However , scientists at NASA 's Goddard Center estimate that the loss of plant and animal species as a result of the destruction of the forest may be three times higher than earlier estimates . |
| 19 | The new initiative was launched at a meeting between President Clinton and the chief executives of the three largest US car manufacturers : General Motors , Ford and Chrysler , at which a new 10-year target was established to create a practical and affordable model running at a level of fuel efficiency three times higher than at present . |
| 20 | The result is that ‘ a listed Church of England church has a chance of avoiding demolition nearly three times better than a listed secular building ’ . |
| 21 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 22 | The first pass produces C code , the second pass results in machine code and bench tests two or three times faster than the previous version . |
| 23 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 24 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 25 | Its collaboration with Evans & Sutherland has reportedly resulted in a breakthrough 3D graphics accelerator family that 's two to three times faster than anything SGI currently has . |
| 26 | It claims the new iron is three times faster than comparable Sun servers or IBM AS/400 equipment and twice that of an equivalent RS/6000 . |
| 27 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 28 | UNEMPLOYMENT in oil-rich Grampian is rising three times faster than in the rest of Scotland , a report by regional economists revealed yesterday . |
| 29 | It employs 766,000 people and last year sold 8.1 million cars and trucks — three times more than the entire British market consumed . |
| 30 | Three All Black thrashings have been a cross Welsh rugby has had to bear alone , as in the same period , since June 1987 , this is three times more than any other home country has had to bear . |