Example sentences of "many [subord] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are now over 11 million shareholders , more than three times as many as in 1979 . |
| 2 | There are now over 11 million shareholders , three times as many as in 1979 . |
| 3 | However , in addition to the lord ( Barking Abbey ) , and the king , who received 12s. ‘ in Certentye ’ , the muster lists a total of ten absentee and sixteen resident landholders , i.e. more than five times as many as in 1548 . |
| 4 | more than this year and three times as many as in 1990-91 . |
| 5 | Indeed both Oxford and Cambridge had become , relatively speaking , seriously understaffed over the previous decade despite the fact that at each university about 900 students were now reading English , three times as many as in 1965 . |
| 6 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 7 | This year there will probably be 50,000 personal-injury lawsuits , twice as many as in 1975 . |
| 8 | ‘ During the visit in September 1856 , to which I refer , as many as from 30 to 40 visitors were brought into communion with each other , establishing acquaintances and friendships of lifelong duration . |