Twice
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1960 examples of Twice in a sentence
Alan Greenspan, a Republican, was reappointed
twice
by Bill Clinton.
With Europe’s banking system triple the size and
twice
as leveraged as its US counterpart, and the ECB lacking genuine lender-of-last-resort authority, the sudden halt in capital flows to peripheral countries in 2009 created a liquidity-starved system that was too big to bail out.
During the 1970s, two international studies demonstrated that US psychiatrists diagnosed about
twice
as many patients as having schizophrenia as psychiatrists in other countries, where psychoanalytic training was relatively uncommon.
If a dissident demonstrated against the Soviet system at least
twice
- say, by distributing illicit writings - the "delusions" signified schizophrenia.
The ECB famously raised interest rates
twice
in 2011, just as the euro crisis was worsening and unemployment was increasing to double-digit levels, bringing deflation ever closer.
More recently, it hosted Kim
twice
in the space of less than two months.
To put that number in perspective, it is about
twice
the total effect of the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions in the rest of the world, including the European Union.
The UN reports that awareness of climate change in wealthy and highly literate countries is nearly
twice
that in impoverished, less literate countries.
If you don’t have a companion animal, but are thinking of getting one, we recommend you think not just twice, but three times.
Biden spent more than
twice
as much time in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping as he did with Abe.
Thus, Swiss researchers caused excitement in 1986 by announcing the discovery of superconductivity in an oxide of copper at
twice
the temperature of the previous record holder.
In her recent Congressional testimony, Fed Chair Janet Yellen referred several times to the mandate of maintaining “stable prices”; but she mentioned the Fed’s 2% inflation objective
twice
as often.
I get over three hundred e-mails a day, sometimes
twice
that.
I do know that the world cannot afford to rely again on America’s press for its information: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
And the answer might very well be an emphatic “no,” as opinion polls in Greece and the experience of Iceland (whose population
twice
voted down deals agreed by the Icelandic government) suggest is likely.
(Your chances are almost
twice
as good in the northeast as in Northern Ireland.)
China’s multitude of export taxes and duties has forced Western companies to pay almost
twice
as much as their Chinese counterparts, creating a powerful incentive for Western manufacturers to set up shop in the Middle Kingdom to gain cheaper access to these indispensable resources.
In August and September, R-7 missiles were successfully launched
twice.
But Israel has managed to attack Syrian territory
twice
– destroying a North Korean-staffed nuclear reactor in 2007 and, more recently, striking a Hezbollah convoy – with no casualties or loss of planes.
But there is nothing normal about an economy that is already
twice
as large as the next largest, Japan, and will possibly outstrip the European Union within the next five years.
For example, in 1983, the Soviet Union’s nuclear early-warning system reported, not once but twice, the launch of US missiles.
A Jewish state has existed for only short periods in Judaism’s history, and it
twice
committed political suicide.
Evolution doesn’t ever build the same form of intelligence
twice
– even though similar problems may lead to similar solutions.
Economic integration has advanced so far that a return to the national rivalries that
twice
led the continent into suicidal warfare is unthinkable.
The rate of spine surgery in the United States, for example, is more than
twice
as high as in Europe.
If one piece of land generates
twice
as much output in terms of bushels of wheat or commercial rent as another, it should naturally be worth double.
After all, households that are saving
twice
as much as previously suspected should be expected to be more resilient when confronted with rising interest rates.
In a recent study of protest movements spanning more than a century, social scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan show that tough but nonviolent confrontation has been
twice
as likely as violent alternatives to bring about its stated goals.
Tickling yourself is as futile as trying to make yourself richer by writing yourself a check – or selling yourself your house for
twice
its current market price.
Yet even she is hesitant about having the entire country change its clocks
twice
per year, especially if the main motivation relates to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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