Example sentences of "twice the speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had reached the further side of the field during this animated discussion and Meredith hopped nimbly over the gate with twice the speed and dexterity with which she had negotiated the stile . |
| 4 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 5 | ‘ Twice the speed of sound in this atmosphere , ’ the Thing went on . |
| 6 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Twice as far away , twice the speed ; three times the distance , three times the speed ; ten times the distance , ten times the speed , and so on . |
| 9 | Twice the distance , twice the speed , right ? ’ |
| 10 | Twice the speed . |
| 11 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The ground quickly vanished as the speed was increased to Mach 2 — twice the speed of sound . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Because if you do n't keep your lover away from her I 'll have the two of you off this island with twice the speed of those rockets out there . |
| 16 | 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 . |