Examples
China is twenty times as large as Japan.
Source: Tatoeba
Asia is roughly four times the size of Europe.
Source: Tatoeba
The population of China is 8 times that of Japan.
Source: Tatoeba
Tom doubled his investment in a year.
Source: Tatoeba
The end product is worth ten times as much as the materials used.
Source: Tatoeba
An ounce of wit that is bought is worse a pound that is taught.
Source: Tatoeba
China's the only country where three people can eat at a mid-range hotpot buffet for only 5 RMB, but a hamburger costs five times as much. Figure that one out!
Source: Tatoeba
If we were to put a grain of wheat on the first box of a chessboard, two grains on the second one, four on the third one and so on, until the last one, there would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains, enough to make a mountain 100 times taller than the Himalayas.
Source: Tatoeba