Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] size of " in BNC.
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1 | The acquisition of Caradon , whose brands embrace Twyfords , Mira showers and Everest double glazing , will more than double the size of MB Group 's building products business which feature Stelrad and Henrad radiators , Ideal boilers and Stelrad Doulton sanitary ware . |
2 | The largest city in the world in 2000 will be Mexico City with a population of some 24.4 millions , more than double the size of any city in 1960 except New York . |
3 | That will more than double the size of the market to 2.5 trillion RPMs in 2005 . |
4 | In the 1977 US survey , people were asked to give the order of importance that they attached to various different types of disclosure information about credit terms , and more ( 62 per cent ) mentioned APRs first than even the size of their monthly payment ( which was judged the next most important ) . |
5 | They are largely illiterate , often unemployed , have families more than twice the size of their non-gypsy neighbours ' and live in cement slums without running water . |
6 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
7 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
8 | Buffaloes more than twice the size of today 's must have been formidable beasts , and pigs the size of rhinoceroses , with metre-long tusks , had little to fear , even from such predators as the now-extinct sabre-toothed members of the lion family which roamed the area . |
9 | It is thus more than twice the size of the sterling CD market . |