Sentence examples for hit by a factor of from inspiring English sources

"What we know about force under static conditions under-predicts how hard sprinters hit by a factor of two," he says.

"They have completely ignored the real economic impact that such a decision is going to have right across Northern Ireland, and particularly in the Coleraine area which will be hit by a factor of 18 times greater than any other office closure anywhere in these islands," he said.

But doubling the number of seeds only increases the expected number of hits by a factor of two whereas increasing the weight by one reduces it to a quarter.

"The economic viability of housing schemes has been hit by a number of factors - primarily the availability of mortgages.

The UK business has been hit by a number of factors, including the slump in property and car sales.

Power companies argue that while coal-fired stations are being hit by tougher pollution regulations emanating from Europe, the economics of gas ones are also being hit by a combination of factors including relatively high wholesale gas prices when compared with cheap coal supplies exported from the US – where it has become surplus to requirements thanks to the country's shale gas boom.

Low-income families are being hit by a combination of factors: cuts to welfare payments, rising rents and a shortage of social housing.

It said markets had been hit by a combination of factors including the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the USA's interest in shale gas, which is extracted from shale rock using the controversial process of fracking.

Flybe chief executive Jim French said the company had been hit by a number of factors including the weak UK economy, record fuel prices and the "ever-increasing" airport departure tax.

Greece was also hit by a second factor, with half a million people fleeing the country, many of them young potential parents.

Rather, the picture pieced together from interviews on Thursday and Friday is one of a richly priced commodities market -- raw goods have been on a five-month winning tear over all other major investment classes -- hit by a flurry of negative factors that individually could be absorbed but cumulatively triggered a maelstrom.