Example sentences of "about twice the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erdinger is by far the biggest wheat-beer producer in Germany ( about twice the size of the other famous specialist , Schneider Weisse ) . |
| 2 | The number of voters missing in the Labour seats held by Ms Diane Abbott and Mr Brian Sedgemore is in each case about twice the size of their majority . |
| 3 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 4 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 5 | It 's just like the programme except the info in it is a bit more out of date and it 's about twice the size . |
| 6 | The magnetopause is closest to Jupiter on the sunward side but never lies closer to Jupiter than about twice the distance of the orbit of the outermost Galilean satellite . |
| 7 | The total cost of war and defence between 1539 and 1547 was over two million pounds , about twice the yield of forced loans , benevolences , and subsidies . |
| 8 | One manufacturer declined absolutely to supply other than his own complete clocks and another quoted £3000.00 plus extras and VAT , which was about twice the budget for the entire project ! |
| 9 | Not because they 're tastefully designed , extremely cleanly built and a pleasure to play — which they are — but because both the guitars we 've reviewed have a quality of sound that would rival a number of US-made guitars costing about twice the price . |
| 10 | Standard sealed units cost about twice the price of an equivalent-sized pane of pane of plain glass , and there will probably be no difference in the frame price . |
| 11 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 12 | For example , if the proton-neutron mass difference were not about twice the mass of the electron , one would not obtain the couple of hundred or so stable nucleides that make up the elements and are the basis of chemistry and biology . |
| 13 | If they are less than about twice the mass of the sun , they will eventually stop contracting and will settle down to a stable state . |
| 14 | WHILE the recession has reduced many families ' incomes , school fees have continued to rise at about twice the rate of inflation . |
| 15 | Was the income generation unit responsible for the policy adopted by New Cross hospital in Wolverhampton and the Mayday hospital in Croydon , whereby bedridden patients must hire a television for a minimum of three days at a cost of £1.95 a day — which is about twice the rate charged by high street television rental companies ? |
| 16 | This data takes the form of a cross-section in one year to show the average wage in each of the age groups , so 44 year-old men for example earn about twice the wage paid to men aged 20 . |
| 17 | ( iii ) Remove the supernatant , except for about twice the volume of the pellet . |
| 18 | This allows him to grow cells at about twice the number per unit volume that will survive in tissue culture — and at just below the density at which they begin to die , poisoned by their own wastes . |
| 19 | According to Israel 's Ministry of Industry & Trade the country has about twice the number of scientists and engineers per capita involved in research and development work than the US and Japan and five times the number in South Korea : 135 per 10,000 in the workforce against 70 per 10,000 in the US , 65 in Japan and 25 in South Korea . |
| 20 | The meeting noted that while Africa had hosted about twice the number that Asia had hosted , this was in no sense a criticism of either . |
| 21 | She discovered there were seventeen pupils , ranging in age from six to twelve , and that they were housed in two so-called dormitories , which were divided by panels into cubicles , each being about twice the area of its narrow iron bed , just enough to hold a chest of drawers and leaving standing space in which to undress . |