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Demand for our loans and project finance is higher than ever: in the first nine months of 2009, we have invested more than €6 billion,
twice
as much as we did in the same period a year ago.
As Oscar Wilde said: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
The world cannot stand by and watch as Rohingya children are punished
twice
– first by the failure of their government to protect them from systematic human rights abuse, and then by a lack of schooling.
The question is whether Russia, fearing harsher repercussions, will actually think
twice
before breaking international laws again.
Thus, International Monetary Fund monitors who visit Iran
twice
a year have projected 6.6% growth for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, but only half that for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.
He has kept the government’s rate of fixed investment at around 5% of GDP, which is
twice
what it was under Ahmadinejad, but still too low.
Urban household spending in Africa is increasing
twice
as fast as rural spending, with urban per capita incomes, on average, 80% higher than those of countries as a whole.
They are more than
twice
as likely to search for information online and to seek products and stores that reflect the “right image.”
In other words, there are
twice
as many industrial fishing vessels catching fish as the oceans can sustain.
But by 2007, Greece was spending more than 14% of GDP in excess of what it was producing, the largest such gap in Europe – more than
twice
that of Spain and 55% higher than Ireland's.
The same thing has happened
twice
since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009 – a 3.4% average annualized gain in the second and third quarters of 2010 and a 4.3% average increase in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.
Heraclitus's warning against bathing in the same sea
twice
is lost on our economic ministers, who insist on bathing regularly in contaminated waters.
Indeed, it is precisely because the US, after more than a decade of war, understands this only too well that any American administration will think
twice
before intervening militarily in the region again.
Income in the US and euro-area both appear to have declined at an annualized rate of roughly 6% in the fourth quarter of 2008;Japan’s GDP fell at perhaps
twice
that rate.
Venezuela’s murder rate, at nearly 54 per 100,000 people, is more than
twice
that of Brazil and Mexico (both countries with frightening numbers of homicides).
Twice
in the last ten years, national governments have explicitly given the EU the authority to tighten constraints on their subsidies to failing airline companies.
When someone breaks down crying while trying to explain the impact that your decision has had on their life, you usually think
twice
about the issue.
But the loss of jobs in the most recent recession was more than
twice
as large as in previous recessions, so a slow recovery has meant a much higher unemployment rate for a much longer period.
Moreover, energy use has grown 16-fold during the twentieth century, causing 160 million tons of atmospheric sulfur-dioxide emissions per year – more than
twice
the total of natural emissions.
For example, men die from lung cancer at more than
twice
the rate of women.
Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, has been spotted spewing water into space from a hidden ocean that could hold
twice
the volume of all of Earth’s oceans.
Globally, more than 30 million tons of oil equivalent are consumed in the form of primary energy every day, equivalent to 55 kilowatt hours per person per day, with rich countries, on average, consuming more than
twice
that figure.
CAMBRIDGE – The United States’ import bill now exceeds $2.4 trillion a year, more than
twice
that of China and greater than that of the 27 European Union countries combined.
There was huge downward pressure on manufacturing prices from low-wage Asian economies, while unemployment in the developed world averaged 5-6% – about
twice
as high as in the earlier post-war decades.
Brazil has been aggressive in terms of capital restrictions,
twice
increasing its tax on financial inflows.
For example, the Health Professional Follow-Up Study found that men with vitamin D deficiencies were
twice
as likely to have a heart attack as men who had adequate levels.
Government data show that the ratio of bank loans to GDP is about
twice
that of the United States.
It will be heavier than three Eiffel Towers; the material for its superconducting magnets would stretch around the equator twice; and it has a price tag of more than €15 billion ($16.8 billion), making it one of the largest international science endeavors in history.
Not only are 12% of bird species already in danger of extinction, but more than
twice
that proportion have small geographical ranges (the key predictor of threat) and mostly live in habitats that are seriously threatened.
The US economy is about
twice
the size of China’s; if it grows by only 2% annually, and China’s economy grows by 6%, they could reach parity sometime after 2025.
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