Example sentences of "twice as [adj] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salt mining at the head of the Nam Siew river has made parts of the river twice as salty as the sea . |
| 2 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 3 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 4 | Industry and tourism helped to make Newbury and Little Walsingham people , respectively , worth twice as much as the country folk of the vicinity . |
| 5 | Little is known of precise wage levels before the beginning of the nineteenth century , but retrospective evidence suggests that Manchester 's spinners were earning between 30 and 38s ( £1.50 — £1.90 ) in the 1790s , twice as much as the weaver exampled by Eden . |
| 6 | The £5m bid is twice as much as the offer from Argyll which owns the Presto and Safeway chains for half the ground in 1987 . |
| 7 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 8 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the proceedings of the international menopause conference which point out that the number of deaths of women in the post-50 age group from heart attack and particularly stroke is twice as great as the number dying from osteoporosis and 10 times as great as the number of deaths from breast cancer ? |
| 9 | In terms of ‘ carrying efficiency ’ , the bicycle is roughly twice as efficient as the car , the bus seven times and surface rapid rail twelve times as efficient . |
| 10 | Now I 'm quite happy to argue we 're twice as good as the Japanese , but I 'm not prepared to claim we 're four times as good , which is what these figures suggest . |
| 11 | Erm the imbalance is reflected in , in many ways but in one way is in traffic using the M twenty five , for example the Western section of the M twenty five from the M three , M four , M forty to the M one over the , the Western end where I live has approximately a hundred and sixty thousand vehicles a day which is e twice as many as the North Eastern side . |
| 12 | In the first month of that decree more than 180,000 passports were issued , twice as many as the average for an entire year under the previous regime . |
| 13 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 14 | But the massive invasion of France in 1544 proved to be more than twice as expensive as the government had estimated : it cost nearly £650,000 instead of the predicted £250,000 . |
| 15 | Their growth rate in the 1980s has been twice as rapid as the growth in the economy 's real output . |
| 16 | The rider is twice as heavy as the horse ’ ( Joseph 1976 ) . |
| 17 | Thus the Newsom Report , which examined secondary schooling for children of average or less than average ability , concluded that the proportion of schools in slum areas which were seriously inadequate was twice as high as the proportion of all schools in the sample . |
| 18 | The incidence of severe acute renal failure in the community is at least twice as high as the incidence reported from renal unit based studies . |
| 19 | By the end of the American war its establishment , which had been 2,738 in 1714 , had risen to 4,910 — twice as large as the rest of the financial administration . |
| 20 | THE ryanodine receptor ( RYR ) is almost twice as large as the inositol trisphosphate receptor ( IP 3 R ) . |
| 21 | Fig 1 is a printout direct from the Creation 6 screen , but should be much too large to transfer direct to the console as its total number of bits is 180 × 176 = 31,680 , twice as large as the number of bits available in stitch pattern area memory . |