Example sentences of "[verb] at twice the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Within this total , trade with the developed capitalist countries increased at twice the rate of trade with the other countries of the socialist community . |
| 11 | Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes . |
| 12 | 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 . |