Example sentences of "[be] more [subord] double " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 2 | The four ‘ little tigers ’ — Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Korea — have growth rates which , at between eight and eleven per cent , are more than double those for most of the rest of the world . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 4 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 5 | These omission errors are small compared with the effects of changes in diagnostic criteria : rates in our broad class are more than double those in the probable class . |
| 6 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 7 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 8 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 9 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 10 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 11 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 12 | Losses on Commercial lines for the year were more than double 1991 , reflecting the difficult market conditions . |
| 13 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 14 | The energy content of fat is more than double that of protein and nearly three times as much as carbohydrate . |
| 15 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 16 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 17 | Thus the proportion of all men belonging to occupational pension schemes is more than double that of women . |
| 18 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 19 | With more than half the world market , Boeing 's share is more than double that of its two biggest competitors : Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . |