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As a very rough rule of thumb, an APR will be around double the flat rate.

A police spokesman said 40,000 people joined rallies in central Athens, while organizers said the figure was around double that.

Levels of THC in marijuana sold in Maastricht's coffee shops are around double those in the US.

That's around double the cycle modal share of London, for example, and four-times that of New York.

User visits are around double the level of those to the Directgov and Business Link websites it replaced.

The Confederation of British Industry, an employers' organisation, says that private companies find their pension costs are around double those allowed for by the public sector before transfer.

The researchers concluded the "benefits in terms of numbers of deaths prevented are around double the harms in terms of overdiagnosis.

■ In most of the coalfields, the share of pensioners living in poverty, measured by the Pension Credit claimant rate, is around double the average in south-east England.

That is around double the going rate for electricity on the wholesale markets, a price so high that equity analysts term it "financial insanity".

When workers in Britain are transferred from the public to the private sector, they are entitled to keep their pension rights; employers who take them on find that their pension costs are around double those estimated by the public sector.

The strike price, which will be paid for through consumer bills, is around double the current wholesale price of electricity, and higher than most renewables, apart from offshore wind - where costs are predicted to fall.