Example sentences of "[subord] twice [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive Committee shall meet not less than twice a year in every calendar year : decide its own procedure : elect its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman , each of whom may hold the office for a maximum period of four consecutive years . |
| 2 | American studies on skin health have indicated that the over-use of steam treatments ( more than twice a week over many months ) can cause ‘ jungle acne ’ — a disorder brought about by the presence of excess moisture in the skin . |
| 3 | More than twice the distance between one platform and the next . |
| 4 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 5 | They are largely illiterate , often unemployed , have families more than twice the size of their non-gypsy neighbours ' and live in cement slums without running water . |
| 6 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 7 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
| 8 | Buffaloes more than twice the size of today 's must have been formidable beasts , and pigs the size of rhinoceroses , with metre-long tusks , had little to fear , even from such predators as the now-extinct sabre-toothed members of the lion family which roamed the area . |
| 9 | It is thus more than twice the size of the sterling CD market . |
| 10 | They calculated the proper stiffness at just more than twice the stiffness of the runner . |
| 11 | But Robert Oppenheimer showed in 1939 that an old star of more than twice the mass of the sun would inevitably collapse when it had exhausted all its nuclear fuel . |
| 12 | A 450km strip of road linking Tokyo , Nagoya and Kobe is alone expected to cost up to ¥5 trillion , more than twice the cost of the Channel tunnel between Britain and France . |
| 13 | Hiring by the week is usually a little less than twice the cost of hiring by the day . |
| 14 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 15 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 16 | The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms . |
| 17 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 18 | So a bore hole was sunk 368ft ; more than twice the height of Nelson 's Column . |
| 19 | With risers of nor more than a foot , it will put more interest into the garden than twice the planting in the plain . |
| 20 | Fats contain more than twice the amount of calories as carbohydrates or proteins for the same weight . |
| 21 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 22 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 23 | I should like , in particular , to explain that if , as he himself desires , the size of the Cabinet is to be restricted [ it had twenty members , more than twice the number in Churchill 's War Cabinet , which oscillated between five and nine ] , the Committee structure affords a useful means of preserving the collective responsibility of Ministers as a whole . |
| 24 | Gas turbine engines , putting out more than twice the power of the average civilian aircraft , allow a cruising speed of 240 kt — nearly 300 mph — and a great deal of the cruise is spent at 250 ft . |
| 25 | Instead it goes on growing , ending up as a giant larva more than twice the weight of a normal adult . |
| 26 | Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc has bought an early model of ‘ the most advanced tape cartridge robotic system ever produced by Storage Technology Corp ’ , Louisville , Colorado for inclusion in an enhanced mass storage environment being developed by the centre : the newly-designed robotic mechanism , which is incorporated into StorageTek 's planned PowderHorn Automated Cartridge System , operates at more than twice the speed of previous models in automatically mounting and dismounting the tape cartridges ; the centre also plans to add a Cray Y-MP C90 system to its configuration . |
| 27 | Italy 's prices went up 14% last year , more than twice the rate of inflation . |
| 28 | CHOSEN Heritage , the pre-planned funeral specialists , have commissioned a comprehensive survey of funeral prices , showing that last year the amount spent on funerals increased by more than twice the rate of inflation . |
| 29 | Rail fares are to increase by up to nine point four per cent , more than twice the rate of inflation . |
| 30 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |