Sentence examples for close to twice from inspiring English sources

Japan's public debt, at $9.7 trillion, was close to twice its gross domestic product in 2009.

The United States spends close to twice as much on international broadcasting — $757 million per year.

New cases have been cropping up close to twice as fast as cases nationally.

The guy two doors down has a smaller house and pays close to twice that amount.

African-Americans and Latinos, particularly Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, incur diabetes at close to twice the rate of whites.

Britain now boasts two huge zombie banks, RBS and Lloyds, whose assets are close to twice the size of our economy.

Our journey was closer to twice that.

The groups also have pledges from others, and Mr. Ickes said the total was closer to twice that.

Once commercially available lithium-sulphur batteries are more likely to have an energy density closer to twice that of current batteries, but that would enable twice the battery life for devices and cars.

Because the Health Department estimates that only about half of all New York City children are actually screened for lead exposure, the research group's report estimates that the true number is closer to twice that.

No one seems to have complained much about such violations until two years ago, when litter collection in Bay Ridge was effectively reduced from twice a day to something closer to twice a week because garbage trucks were diverted to dirtier parts of the city, said Josephine Beckmann, district manager of the local community board.