Example sentences of "twice [adv] long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 2 | The final report , giving the regional overview , case studies , and comprehensive analysis of statistical information took two years to complete , twice as long as was expected , yet the problems of acceptability to the establishment were not over . |
| 3 | Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate . |
| 4 | A small boy rounds up chickens with a stick twice as long as himself . |
| 5 | It 's long-play feature enables you to record up to eight hours of matches on one tape — twice as long as usual ! |
| 6 | The canal took 18 years to complete , twice as long as Telford had forecast , and cost more than double what he had estimated , but it was an outstanding engineering achievement for the time , even though the actual length of genuine canal that had to be dug was only 21 miles , since the navigable channel took advantage of existing lochs along the glen . |
| 7 | For instance , a very good way is to make everything you do take twice as long as it would normally take you . |
| 8 | The Act 's 238 sections and 13 schedules make it almost twice as long as the 1944 Education Act and it is certainly comparable in significance . |
| 9 | Conversely , it has also been shown that in the absence of another meal , the previous one may be kept in the stomach for more than twice as long as usual ( Chitty , 1938 ) , presumably with a gradual increase in stomach acidity , and the bones in this instance are likely to be strongly modified or even totally destroyed . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 11 | This is easiest with an electric beater as it takes twice as long as you expect . |
| 12 | The Martian year is nearly twice as long as Earth 's , although its ‘ day ’ is virtually the same . |
| 13 | That is nearly twice as long as patients should have to wait according to the John Major 's Patients ' Charter . |
| 14 | Once these mothers and children started an argument they were likely to last twice as long as in non-clinic families . |
| 15 | It will be about twice as long as the goods brake and , as Colin 's article states , it will be carried on No. 5 's bogies and used as a mobile shop/ticket office/refreshment car . |
| 16 | Greek conscientious objectors are not allowed to perform civilian alternative service but instead may perform unarmed military service lasting twice as long as normal military service . |
| 17 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 18 | The average working week of housewiv es in this sample is seventy-seven hours — almost twice as long as an industrial working week of forty hours . |
| 19 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 20 | Women currently outlive men by about six years , so that as they retire five years earlier they can expect on average to spend twice as long as men in retirement . |
| 21 | Snooker frames with Julian last about twice as long as they do with anybody else . |
| 22 | For this reason , the algorithm needs to scan backward as well as forward , and therefore takes twice as long as the simple algorithm . |
| 23 | What is more important , the complex algorithm is shown to take roughly twice as long as the simple algorithm across all window sizes . |
| 24 | This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams . |
| 25 | In fact , depending on the size of the excavation and the range of finds , more people may be engaged in the post-excavation analysis than during the actual excavation ; and whatever the size of the site , the post-excavation analysis takes at least twice as long as the excavation itself . |
| 26 | The journey into town took twice as long as it should . |
| 27 | I was not conscious of this — it could have lasted twice as long as far as I was concerned . |
| 28 | The adoral shields are about twice as long as broad not particularly wing-like and not separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 29 | The adoral shields are large prominent about twice as long as broad and only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | The adoral shields are larger about twice as long as broad , slightly curved , and do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |