Sentences with phrase «size twice each time»

Not exact matches

They feared they would be unable to compete at home and abroad with such international giants (at the time ING Groep was twice the size of Royal Bank of Canada), culminating in clumsy, thwarted bids to consolidate the sector in 1998.

Just for comparative purposes, Apple's business is almost 3 times the size of Netflix and twice the size of Amazon's AWS.

«Rather than offering people one or two rides, the goal of this program is to give participants access to our fleet every day, at any time, to go anywhere within an area that's about twice the size of San Francisco.»

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

While «garbage patch» might make you think of something you pass by on the side of the road, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is less like a patch and more like a massive swirling vortex more than three times the size of Spain and more than twice the size of Turkey or Texas.

But the timing of a float of the Asia - Pacific food assets is still being decided and the group wants to grow to more than twice its current size before hitting the button on an IPO intended to fund even more acquisitions.

And may I look back in a year's time and write a blog post twice this size

Alaska, a state in the US, is almost twice the size of Nigeria just as the US is almost 11 times the size of Nigeria, yet the country is run effectively.

Swimming and striding through it all was a huge otter — described today for the first time — that weighed in at around 50 kilograms, twice the size of today's otters (see artist's representation, above).

Despite being barely twice the size of an average house cat, the serval is the most effective hunter of all wildcats, with successful kills approximately half of the time.

That is more than 23 times bigger than the Southwest blackout of 2011 and more than twice the size of North America's biggest power failure, the August 2003 Northeast blackout that left 50 million people without power.

At just under eight times the mass and twice the size of our own world, 55 Cancri e is a welterweight that straddles the hazy boundary between terrestrial and gas - giant planets.

They can emit 100 times as much energy as our entire Galaxy, yet from a region only about twice the size of the Solar System.

Worldwide, energy is a $ 3 - trillion - a-year operation, twice the size of global agriculture and four or five times larger than all the world's military expenses.

A body twice the size of Neptune and about one - tenth as heavy as Jupiter (but still about 30 times the mass of Earth) would have sufficed.

By noon (day 44), Mercury would be at its perihelion, the sun would have swelled from twice the size it appears from Earth to three times as big, and Mercury's temperature would be well on its way to the day's high of 800 °F.

Fishing spiders, such as this Ancylometes bogotensis, spend a good deal of time in the water, where they can catch fish more than twice their size.

Other times, it meant listening to the same sound twice, but in different - sized rooms.

Far from there being a continuum of planets, the study found two distinct groups: one smaller than 1.5 times the size of Earth, the other bigger than twice Earth's size, with very few examples in the gap in between.

By measuring the size of the largest raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.

A natural tinkerer with things, Nelson grew interested in astronomical instruments, and in 1977 made a proposal to the University of California to build a telescope with a mirror 10 meters across, twice the size of the biggest telescope in the United States at the time.

Its closest approach to the Sun (76 times the Earth — Sun distance) is more than twice the size of Neptune's orbit.

Size Does Matter: While Others Have You Trying To Make Kombucha Using A Small Dehydrated Disc The Size Of An Oreo Cookie, This Kit Includes 2 North America's Largest Living Kombucha Cultures, Each 6.5 Inches In Diameter, So You Can Have Twice The Amount Of Kombucha In Half The Time!

Anyway, the beeswax candles last up to three times longer than paraffin wax candles and twice as long as soy candles of the same size.

So, believe it or not, I've actually had to re-buy those red pants TWICE, getting them in smaller sizes each time (thank goodness The Limited still sold them!)

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

Regarding the Class Size Amendment, Florida legislators have worked double - time to subvert the will of the people who voted twice for the initiative.

There is not enough money in any nation's coffers to afford to mandate both high compensation and reduced teaching load and, at the same time, very small class sizes and a school staff that is twice the size of the professional teaching staff.

Among Connecticut African - American, Hispanic, and low - income students, performance growth is three times greater than statewide growth in math and twice as great for reading and writing, trimming the size of the achievement gap.

Luckily I caught this in time and shrank my font size to 10 for book 1, so that it can stay uniform with book 2, which is twice as large.

Fostered out twice, neither home was able to offer the time he required or the ability to care for his special needs, which were more than a handful at his size during a seizing fit.

For example, if his size and age requires a cup of food per day, feed 1/3 cup of food three times a day up to 6 months old, and 1/2 cup of food twice a day after 6 months.

As your puppy approaches his adult weight and size, reduce feedings to twice a day and remember to ask your vet when it's time to either change to a junior food or to move on to adult food.

For a month of flea and worm medication, it can be twice or three times as much as small size dogs.

But it is twice the size of Jamaica, four times the size of Trinidad and still larger than all the old British West Indies put together (with the exception of Guyana which is on the South American mainland).

Because the bicycle grows in size, it can be used by the same child for twice the time; using 1 bike instead of at least 2.

«Inverse - square law The intensity (or illuminance or irradiance) of light or other linear waves radiating from a point source (energy per unit of area perpendicular to the source) is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source; so an object (of the same size) twice as far away, receives only one - quarter the energy (in the same time period).»

Another way to put it is that the doubling time of the population — the number of years it takes to grow to twice its initial size — is also a constant.

There are now 1.5 million non-profits in the U.S. and each time one of these groups wants to double the size of their eco-village, or raise more awareness, they need to first acquire twice as much money, staff, and resources.

In late January this year, the leading Scots firm changed office for the third time since it launched in London five years ago, moving its lawyers a short walk across the Square Mile from Arthur Street to new premises more than twice the size at Condor House, in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral.

It's not at all hard to imagine the advertising opportunities for a bite - sized live streamed show happening twice every 24 hours at the same exact time — all with a reliable stream of viewers that keeps ticking upward with each passing day.

«They refuse to accept that fact that Clinton's machine was twice the size or three times the size of anything we were doing for Trump.»

Take some time once or twice a year to review your CEO resume and add any new engagements you have spearheaded — maybe the size of your team and scope of your role has expanded; it's often best to include this information while it is fresh on your mind.

Limitations include small sample size, reliance on self - reported measures, participants who were in the play therapy group received twice as much time with counselors over children in the active control group, and lack of follow - up.

In contrast, in Houston you could get twice or three times the size of home if you just go out 15 - 20 miles.

Our current home is twice the size and it is pretty funny that we still spend most of our time in our teeny ~ tiny family room... You can take the family out of the small home but you can't take the small home out of the family... I often miss that smaller house and I too used to sit and imagine all the changes I would do to find more space.

I mean, it just blew my mind every time I walked in there and the room felt twice the size as what it used to.