Example sentences of "at twice the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The years from 1966 to 1969 saw real GDP growing in excess of 10 per cent annually and , with growth at twice the level of Japan 's competitors , it was confidently expected that the substantial differences in productivity levels between large and small firms would be eroded . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes . |
4 | Within this total , trade with the developed capitalist countries increased at twice the rate of trade with the other countries of the socialist community . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The camera signals are stored in separate buffers and the controller reads them at twice the rate at which they were written . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |