Example sentences of "twice as much as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 2 | Thus a paediatrician is paid almost twice as much as a general practitioner for each patient that he sees , but less than a general physician , who is given twice as much as a dermato-venereologist . |
| 3 | Trax costs about twice as much as a conventional walkway . |
| 4 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 5 | Rank , having carried the can on that occasion , then allowed spending on Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) to reach the mind-numbing figure of £1,280,000 , twice as much as The Red Shoes . |
| 6 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 7 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 8 | Even the PTTs ‘ electronic telephone directory ’ turned out to cost twice as much as the £50 planned . |
| 9 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 10 | Industry and tourism helped to make Newbury and Little Walsingham people , respectively , worth twice as much as the country folk of the vicinity . |
| 11 | The 1.5 litre size would contain 17 units of alcohol ( i.e. twice as much as the 75cl size ) . |
| 12 | It consumes more than twice as much as the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | Little is known of precise wage levels before the beginning of the nineteenth century , but retrospective evidence suggests that Manchester 's spinners were earning between 30 and 38s ( £1.50 — £1.90 ) in the 1790s , twice as much as the weaver exampled by Eden . |
| 14 | The amount of oil spilt was twice as much as the Exxon Valdez which ran aground off Alaska in 1989 , and slightly more than Aegean Sea which ran aground off the Spanish coast in December [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 15 | The report states that Russia and the former Soviet Union have dumped 92 petabecquerels ( PBq ) into the Arctic and Pacific Oceans , twice as much as the 46 PBq of admitted marine dumping by other countries , according to the International Atomic Energy Agency . |
| 16 | The top 20pc of households receive an income ( £786 ) 10 times greater than the poorest 20pc , which lives off £73 a week , with the richest 20pc spending £165.30 a person more than twice as much as the poorest 20pc , who spend £62.50 per person . |
| 17 | The £5m bid is twice as much as the offer from Argyll which owns the Presto and Safeway chains for half the ground in 1987 . |
| 18 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |