preposition

• Multiplied by.

  More example sentences

  • ‘eleven times four is forty-four’
  • ‘Four hours later, he was found one and a half times over the drink-drive limit.’
  • ‘The men's suicide rate is three and a half times higher.’
  • ‘And it will differ from developments in America in only one respect: it will happen many times faster.’
  • ‘Individuals who report insomnia lasting for one year are forty times more likely than normal to develop clinical depression.’
  • ‘They have now at this point five times more the number of seats in parliament than they had before.’
  • ‘I left the shop 30 minutes later, having spent four times what I had anticipated.’
  • ‘Pike said the airline spent four times more money running the service than it received in revenue.’
  • ‘But a ship five times their size would seem impossible… or is it?’
  • ‘International travelers, who surveys indicate spend six times what domestic tourists do in New York, have largely disappeared.’
  • ‘I believe I can build a company ten times the size without a desk.’
  • ‘"We're ten times the size of anyone else, " Pierce bragged.’
  • ‘In the process it has been thickened to nearly 2.5 times the worldwide average.’
  • ‘Little wonder the city's homicide rate stands at 10 times the national average.’
  • ‘He sees his brothers with four times the amount of money in their pockets.’
  • ‘Sales top $1,000 per square foot, three times the industry average.’
  • ‘On average, the $5,500 is matched by seven times the grant amount.’
  • ‘Myocardial infarction is 4.2 times more likely to occur within an hour of smoking cannabis.’
  • ‘If a times b is seven hundred and six and one fiftieth, and if c is thirty six and nine tenths more than a.’