Example sentences of "be [det] than double [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 2 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 3 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 4 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 5 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 6 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 7 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 8 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |