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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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