Sentence examples for twice likely from inspiring English sources

"twice likely" is not correct and is not usable in written English
The correct phrase in this context would be "twice as likely" or "two times more likely". For example: "Data suggests that women are twice as likely to develop depression than men."

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Furthermore, adolescents with high physical competence are twice likely to experience sports related injuries.

More severely ill patients with a higher baseline CGI-S were twice likely to be treated concomitantly with a benzodiazepine.

S2 is now twice likely to start transmitting before S1; even if S1 waits a maximum of its 64 time slots, the probability of collision is still 1.

Based on the stock's Dec. 2 closing price of US $46 a share, the company is valued at $4 billion–about twice likely revenues.

The CBC was so proud of itself it tweeted the story twice, likely in order to taunt the WSJ for not writing it first.

Those with good sleep quality were almost twice likely to report good levels of SRH.

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But there are other surprises: Girls who physically develop earlier than their peers are twice as likely to take drugs and twice as likely to attempt suicide.

Conservatives are twice as likely as liberals to be married and twice as likely to attend church every week.

They were almost twice as likely to be searched as whites and twice as likely to be arrested even though police found no weapons or drugs on them.

Disabled people are also twice as likely as non-disabled people to have no qualifications, and twice as likely to live in poverty.

Indigenous Australians are almost twice as likely to abstain from alcohol than non-Indigenous Australians, but also twice as likely to binge drink.

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