These forces were three times the size of Robert E.Lee's army near Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Now this happens to be what we would call a linear process, because the number of times I go around the loop is directly related to the size of the argument. If I double 2 the argument, I'm going to double the number of times I go around the loop. If I increase it by five, 5 I'm going to increase by five the number of times I go around the loop.

这恰好是我们会成为,线性复杂度程序的一个例子,因为我要执行循环的次数是,和输入的参数的大小直接相关的,如果我将这个参数乘以,那么我就要将进行循环的次数也乘以2了，如果我把参数加上,那么循环的次数也要加上5了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Cereal would be--a serving of cereal would be about the amount that would fit in a wine glass, but people think that you fill up a bowl and that becomes a serving, but a typical amount of cereal that people serve themselves might be two or three times what the ordinary size is.

这是一餐份量的麦片,放在酒杯里大概那么多,但人们认为满满一碗才是一份,人们通常所食用的麦片,是原来大小的二到三倍

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That is almost 3 times the size of last year's deficit.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

The sheer size of the service is at the heart of many complaints, such as long waiting times, canceled operations and poor nursing care.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24