structure · neutral
twice/three times as + adjective + as + noun
Say that X is two or three times greater/larger/more than Y.
Examples
“City A has twice as many residents as City B.”
“The new model is three times as efficient as the old one.”
“Sales this quarter were twice as high as last quarter.”
Band 8 sentence
“Urban graduates are twice as likely as rural ones to continue to tertiary education, highlighting structural inequalities in access.”
Collocations
- twice as likely as
- twice as many as
Word family
Common mistakes
two times more than→twice as ... as / two times as ... as
twice more than→twice as ... as
Say it for a higher band
5two times more than→6two times as ... as→7+twice/three times as + adjective + as + noun
Synonyms
double
Easily confused
double
“The company's profits are double those of last year.”
two times more than
“She has two times more books than I do.”
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