Example sentences of "five to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company is claiming it offers five to six times the performance of a 66MHz 486DX , and is fully PC-compatible , meaning you can run your shareware utilities on it . |
| 2 | Relative to what their size warranted and depending on which type of offence was examined , the oil-refining industry committed crimes at a rate five to nine times higher than would be expected , the motor industry three to seven times , and the pharmaceutical industry was four to six times as criminal as would be predicted . |
| 3 | According to 3Com , router administration is reduced through its Boundary Routing System Architecture — it says five to 10 times more remote site connections can be added without adding resources , complexity or risk — and Cascade 's switching technologies are said to produce cost-effective wide area network backbones that are easily managed . |
| 4 | The risk of hepatitis B infection for healthcare workers is five to 10 times that of the general population . |
| 5 | How can the Minister or the companies justify increases of five to seven times the rate of inflation ? |
| 6 | To encourage speculators Chéron published a brochure , assuring his would-be customers that by collecting paintings of promising young artists and selling them ten or fifteen years later , they could realize an increase of five to ten times on the purchase price . |
| 7 | Professor Robert E. Ornstein of the University of California , a recognised expert in left and right brain research , has proved that when you develop the second side of your brain you actually enhance your mental powers by anything from five to ten times its previous level . |
| 8 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 9 | The resting metabolic rate for a mammal is five to ten times higher than for ectotherms with an equally high body temperature . |
| 10 | Indeed , food requirements can rise anywhere from five to ten times that needed for a similar ectotherm . |
| 11 | In relation to population , this is five to ten times fewer prisoners than in European countries . |
| 12 | He reckons NeXTStep can do development five to ten times faster than other technologies such as SunSoft Inc 's Solaris or Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4.2 which he says are weak development solutions . |