Example sentences of "[adv prt] twice the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 2 | A SCHOOL bus driver packed in twice the legal limit of pupils on his coach and told them : ‘ Duck if you see a copper . ’ |
| 3 | If you 've missed a year can you put in twice the amount the following year ? |
| 4 | However that 's a , I mean tha I I I think her , she 's always turned in twice the level that the formula assumes , or at least twice |
| 5 | A walk-around reveals some of the unusual features of the basic design , like the fullspan ailerons , trailing link undercarriage , differential rudders ( the outgoing one travelling through twice the angle of its ingoing twin ) , and the elevator with its central cut-out and restricted movement . |
| 6 | One wave in 23 is over twice the height of the average wave . |
| 7 | What is interesting is that the actual deficits of 1971 and 1972 turned out to be over twice the planned deficits for those years and the actual deficit of 1975 three times the projected deficit for that year . |
| 8 | In order to expand output quickly Japanese firms did invest heavily at over twice the rates of their competitors , but this increase in their own capacity did not result in the demise of the small firm , rather subcontracted orders offered an expansion path based on interdependence . |
| 9 | The level of personal savings is particularly high in Japan at over twice the rate in Western economies , and as the majority preference is for assets with a lower risk , over two-thirds are kept in bank deposits . |
| 10 | Competition for a sixteenth-century Italian mirror with an architectural gilt and lacquered wood surround pushed bidding up to FFr 95,000 ( £9,700 ; $17,500 ) over twice the estimate set by Tajan and his expert Olivier Le Fuel . |
| 11 | However , Drugs Council clients had over twice the proportion of ‘ two bag ’ daily users ( 22 per cent against 9 per cent ) compared to clients of the Detoxification Unit , whereas the latter agency had nearly three times the proportion of 1 gram per day users ( 14 per cent against 5 per cent ) . |
| 12 | A so called ‘ rationalisation ’ of the market is now leading to the price charged in Britain rising at over twice the rate of inflation towards what is charged in other countries . |
| 13 | London and Leicester had almost three times the national average share , while Bradford , Slough , Birmingham and Smethwick had over twice the average ( Champion et al . , |
| 14 | For instance , in 1981 almost 36 per cent of Clacton 's population were of pensionable age , over twice the national average of 17.5 per cent , and people of older working age — either those taking early retirement or moving in anticipation of retirement after their children had grown up — are also strongly represented here and in similar resorts like Eastbourne , Worthing , Hastings , Llandudno and Torquay . |
| 15 | This is no surprise when , even in healthcare , the UK 's strongest area , the Japanese now invest over twice the amount the UK allots to R&D . |
| 16 | Provisional figures for the first part of 1990 suggested a lack of progress in combating inflation , which remained over twice the European average . |
| 17 | I had a jumper that my mum knitted that went wrong and ended up twice the size it should have been . |
| 18 | Suppose it decided to pay out twice the amount of dividends as before . |