Sentence examples for were twice the from inspiring English sources

Cost overruns were twice the project estimate.

Still, mining deaths in Colorado were twice the national average.

They were twice the length of my forearm.

Earnings were twice the 14 cents a share that had been expected by Wall Street analysts.

Moreover, the children's gestural vocabularies, on average, were twice the size of their speech vocabularies".

Britain finished in 19th place, but the six medals were twice the pre-Games target.

Foreign-language tours were twice the price of tours conducted in Czech.

Some were twice the size of my car, others mere pebbles, and they were mostly stable — mostly.

These days, political events occur, as it were, twice — the first time as near-tragedy, the second time as farce*.

When I first got to America in 1978 I remember thinking how sandwiches, fruit and meals generally were twice the size they were back home.

The 371 still-operating banks on Foresight's "watch list" as of March held brokered deposits that, on average, were twice the norm.