Example sentences of "than twice [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong 's inflation rate , around 14% in the year to April , is more than twice that of the United States . |
| 2 | Last year 's unemployment rate among blacks was 10.5% , more than twice that for whites . |
| 3 | ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ was finally to reach more than twice that length , but even in its early form had clearly developed beyond its original purpose as a magazine ballad . |
| 4 | I remember picking a Rallye 100ST at Dunkeswell for £12 an hour in the late 1970s , and my flying now costs me a little more than twice that per hour fifteen years later . |
| 5 | If the last column is more than twice that of the first , then the company 's profit trend will be enhanced ( positive measurement distortion ) . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if the last column is less than twice that of the first , then the company 's profit trend will be understated ( negative measurement distortion ) . |
| 7 | They will not offer the clarity of full-scale HDTV , which is more than twice that of conventional sets , but they will outperform them — and confuse the would-be consumer , who has little idea what HDTV is . |
| 8 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 9 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 10 | The early estimate — more than twice that for the Europa bomb blast — was predicted today as dozens of traders prepared hefty damage claims . |
| 11 | Somewhat less than twice that number were reported to have been injured . |
| 12 | Tanzania 's elephant population stands at about 55,000 , but was more than twice that size before widespread poaching from 19801989 nearly wiped out its herds . |
| 13 | By the year 2020 there will be about 8,100 million , and by 2100 perhaps 11,300 million , or more than twice present levels . |
| 14 | Hepatic dysfunction was defined as greater than twice normal activity of at least two hepatic enzymes . |
| 15 | Length of the carapace is 2½ cm , but the species grows to more than twice this size . |
| 16 | The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage . |
| 17 | Most startling was their conclusion that the death rates from accidents and violence ( of which suicide is a major component ) were more than twice those of employed men . |
| 18 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 19 | When the lawyer representing British Caledonian Airways , who were opposing Virgin 's application , remarked that Virgin would need ‘ a lot of groups on Top of the Pops ' to afford to run an airline , Branson promptly retorted that Virgin 's £11.4m profits in 1983 were actually more than twice those of British Caledonian . |