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One of the reactors was shaken by a jolt nearly two and a half times more powerful than it had been built to withstand.

So long and numerous were these walls that Po estimated they would go around the earth one and a half times if put end to end.

Why would someone even consider trying to open a golf club nearly one-and-a-half times the size of Manhattan?

A shirt that weighed 200 grams at the beginning of a match can weigh up to two-and-a-half times as much just 45 minutes later.

We spend one-and-a-half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we aren't any healthier for it.

I was the only human being in an area one-and-a-half times the size of America; five-and-a-half thousand square miles.

Adrian Pang, Asia Pacific managing director for DoveBid, said auction volumes are roughly two-and-a-half times greater now than a year ago.

Planet Earth would have to be one-and-a-half times bigger to meet the demands of mankind, concludes the organization.

At 48 trays per minute, the speed is over two and a half times that of the manual weighing process.

The fourth planet's name is Mars; its distance from the sun is one and a half times our distance from the sun.

Boys are three and a half times more likely to be excluded, and the figure is worse still if you are a working-class or black boy.

Mexico's tariffs were two and a half times as high as ours, and even so, next to Canada, it was the largest purchaser of U. S. products.

Highly caffeinated energy drink that contains three and a half times (280 mg) the caffeine of a more popular energy drink, Red Bull.

The driver in front of me jerked the wheel, causing her car to spin around, and around and around_three and a half times!

Analysts from Barclays Capital pointed out yesterday that it is one-and-a-half times the entire stock of notes and coins in the economy.

This means listed companies have been growing at two-and-a-half times the rate of the Chinese economy.

Every year four-and-a-half times the quantity spilled by the Exxon Valdez is poured into the ocean and nobody bats an eyelid.

Chinese exports in February were almost one and half times their level a year ago.

A single gas well in Europe might cost as much as $14m to sink, three-and-a-half times more than an American one, estimates Deutsche Bank.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people'spatience.

Since Brazil relaxed price and production controls on sugar cane two decades ago, its crop has increased by two and a half times.

He also raised the minimum wage by two-and-a-half times since 2003, taking its purchasing power to its highest level since 1979.

When results are announced on Tuesday, analysts expect the Detroit automaker's operating profit will be two and a half times Fiat's.

Placid Burkina Faso is now two-and-a-half times richer.

Shanghai and Shenzhen are now almost two-and-a-half times bigger than Tokyo in equity turnover.

In Belgium the unemployment rate for immigrants is two-and-a-half times that for those born in the country.

In about twenty years, Japan's share of global GDP was two-and-a-half times its initial share.

In the last decade the pay of CEOs in the FTSE 100 has jumped two and a half times.

The morning was lengthened to one-and-a-half times the normal period of effective daylight.

That's four and a half times more than the state spends to educate a child.

It describes a rectangle with a length about one and one-half times its width.

One study reported that the mortality rate for single men aged between 30 and 59 is two and a half times higher than those who are married.

It describes arightanglerectangle with a length about15oneandone-half times its width.

It has decreased almost two and half times, compared with. . .

Currently, 3D TVs cost about one-and-a-half times as much as equivalent 2D high-definition sets, but prices are falling.

As of now, planned substitutions will not occur on interruptions caused by free kicks, off sides, penalties, half times or goals.

This equation says the line height and margin are 1 and a half times the font size.

Antarctica occupies 10% of the land on earth and it is one and half times as big as China.

The DX has a 9. 7-inch screen, about the size of a hardcover. That's two and half times more reading area.

A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.

The scientists found that the wild strawberry has 35, 000 genes, one and half times the number found in humans.

It is almost one and half times bigger than Jupiter -- the largest planet in our solar system. And it is less dense than water.

China will also continue to expand forest coverage by 40 million hectares, that is bigger than one and half times the size of UK.

That's two and half times more reading area.

In China, it's about two and a half times its GDP, or about where Japan was in the late 1960s.

expanding forest coverage by 40 million hectares, that is bigger than one and half times the size of United Kingdom.

House prices were as barmy as in America and Britain, rising by almost two and half times from 2000 to the peak.

one and a half times the usual rate of pay

One and half times the size of Australia