Example sentences of "twice as [adj] [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . |
| 2 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
| 3 | Such heat fluxes are important in at least two major respects : first , without them , the annually averaged pole-to-Equator temperature difference for the present climate would be about twice as great as it is . |
| 4 | They need somewhere warm and soft to sleep and the bed should be made twice as thick as it is normally . |
| 5 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except Spain , where it is nearly twice as high as it is here , and in every European Free Trade Association country , and in every G7 country it is higher than it was a year ago . |
| 6 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except in Spain , but there it is twice as high as it is in Britain . |