Example sentences of "[prep] about twice the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defendus came up with a projected energy requirement in 2000 of about twice the current consumption , some 40 per cent of the projection made by the LRPPP . |
| 2 | ( iii ) Remove the supernatant , except for about twice the volume of the pellet . |
| 3 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 4 | WHILE the recession has reduced many families ' incomes , school fees have continued to rise at about twice the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | 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 . |