Example sentences of "at twice the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The control signal for the switch is derived from the first divider bistable ( at twice the core switching frequency ) by differentiating the square wave and clipping off the negative pulses with a diode .
2 The years from 1966 to 1969 saw real GDP growing in excess of 10 per cent annually and , with growth at twice the level of Japan 's competitors , it was confidently expected that the substantial differences in productivity levels between large and small firms would be eroded .
3 The simple ‘ proportional ’ or ‘ rollback ’ model assumes linearity in the relationship between emission rates and resulting pollution concentrations such that , for example , a region with sulphur dioxide levels at twice the air quality standard will attain the standard if total sulphur dioxide emissions in the region are halved .
4 This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price .
5 Televisa 's Mr Diez Barroso says rates are cheap — around a fifth of those in America — and that the market would accept them at twice the price .
6 At the same time we have decided to calculate family membership at twice the adult rate ( £28 ) .
7 The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) .
8 Note the modulation at twice the input frequency and the elevation of mean activity level .
9 Europe , which accounts for one-third of IBM 's revenue , is growing at twice the rate of the US market , but Asia continues to be the fastest-growing region .
10 Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes .
11 The camera signals are stored in separate buffers and the controller reads them at twice the rate at which they were written .
12 The growth rates of productivity in Japanese manufacturing have consistently outstripped those of its major economic rivals over the past quarter century and output per worker has increased at twice the rate recorded in other OECD states .
13 Within this total , trade with the developed capitalist countries increased at twice the rate of trade with the other countries of the socialist community .
14 A Labour Party survey found that in the year up to August 1987 the price of a school meal in primary schools had risen at twice the rate of inflation , and this had resulted in a reduction in the number of children taking school meals .
15 Let us suppose that NBFIs maintain a stable proportion of bank deposits to total assets and that their assets are growing at twice the rate of nominal income .
16 It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income .
17 Bush 's sequence of 35 consecutive vetoes , all upheld in Congress , ended on Oct. 5 in relation to a bill to re-regulate the cable television industry , where charges had risen at twice the rate of inflation since deregulation in 1984 .
18 About one in five of all trips are made for business purposes and the business travel industry is growing at twice the speed of tourism .
19 Their thirteen examples are still flying safely and reliably and at an operating profit , and unless and until a new design is embarked upon ( undoubtedly requiring massive joint international investment ) then Concorde will almost certainly be the only way civilian passengers can travel at twice the speed of sound until well into the next century .
20 Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time .
21 As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for .
22 It was reported on March 1 that , although the construction of the tunnel was behind schedule , geological problems relating to the chalk seabed had now been overcome , and digging was now advancing at twice the speed of a year earlier .
23 Unable to stop the spell which has made the broom fetch water , the apprentice breaks it in two only to have both halves doing the job at twice the speed .
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