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The phrase 'five times smaller' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is much smaller than another thing. For example, "The newly constructed bridge is five times smaller than the old one."
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For a country with a population five times smaller than London, these are crazy days.
A small country like France, which is five times smaller than the Democratic Republic of Congo, has about the same population – 67 million inhabitants.
Simple arithmetic shows that $10.3tn growing at 6% or 7% produces much bigger numbers than 10% growth starting from a base that is almost five times smaller.
"As a result, passenger traffic at this obvious focal point for cross-border exchanges between the two Congos is around five times smaller than that between East and West Berlin in 1988".
While Slovakia is offering to take 100 refugees, which is fewer than Cyprus (173), a country with a population nearly five times smaller than that of the eastern European country.
Most photographers then were using 35mm Leicas, of course, but I didn't like them; the image was five times smaller than a Rollei, and the body was too fragile.
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Over the past three decades the category has scored 50%-plus years five times; small-value funds accomplished that just two times.
Nanotechnology works at a scale one thousand times smaller still.
Now the monthly death toll may be ten times smaller.
Those devices will be approximately a million times smaller than what are currently in computers.
Milk production, though well up on last year's figure, is seven times smaller than it was.
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