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“Isn't it curious that two "town-drunkards" and one half-breed loafer should leave behind them, in a remote Missourian village, a fame a hundred times greater and several hundred times more particularized in the matter of definite facts than Shakespeare left behind him in the village where he had lived the half of his lifetime?”
“He lived long enough to condemn the proposal of some of our morbidly conscientious people, hypnotized by the same old crafty Colombians, to pay Colombia a gratuity five times greater than that which General Reyes would have thankfully received in December, 1903.”
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
“If at times greater severity seems to be shown, this consisted in the refusal, not of absolution but of communion; such was the penalty prescribed by the Council of Elvira (306) for those who after baptism had fallen into idolatry.”
“StatCounter, an Irish metrics vendor, pegged IE6's share of the China market last month at 62%, nearly 10 times greater than the 6. 4% share the old browser enjoyed in the U.S.”
“Owing to the number of ad hoc miscellaneous units Chuikov had cooped up in isolated parts of the city, this habit resulted in an estimate of the Russian strength five or six times greater than the true figure.”
Barbarossa
“Michelle Petri, who is involved in a trial to treat lupus patients prophylactically with Lipitor, a potent anticholesterol drug thought to lower the risk of heart attack, says that “the risk is fifty times greater of having a heart attack if you have lupus.””
“In families with male-limited susceptibility, alcohol abuse is found to be nine times greater in the adopted sons, regardless of the environment after their adoption.8”
“Not just from the exhaustion; the water, with a specific heat exactly one thousand times greater than air, had been conducting warmth away from his body twenty-five times as rapidly as air would at this temperature,”
Time Was
“As it was, the prices of the new homes in the Bayport area were several times greater than what we would receive for the small house we planned to sell.”
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