The awn is about twice as long as the spikelet, twisted at the base, and usually bent near the middle.
They have usually about twelve short sepals; the same number of pointed petals, two or three times the length of the sepals; about twiceas many stamens; and an ovary of as many carpels as there are petals and sepals.
The vertical apical spine is about twice as long as the three basal spines, and connected with them by an irregular loose framework.
Feet large, straight, widely divergent, about twice as long as the shell, prismatic, irregularly branched.
Spines straight and stout, three-sided prismatic, about twice as long as the common middle rod, irregularly branched or nearly verticillate, with short thorny branches.
Three feet large, cylindrical, curved, about twice as long as the shell, forked at the distal end.
Shell roundish or subspherical, with numerous small circular or roundish pores, about twice as broad as the bars.
Jelly-envelope thick (about twice as broad as the capsule), with very numerous xanthellae.
There was to me about twice as much time between the first and second shots as there was between the second and third shots.
Oh, about twice as far as I am from here to this door.
I was there at the back, right at the alley back there about as far from Patton Street as--about twice as far from here as to that window.
But the case of Linum, in which the grains of the two forms are of equal size, whilst the pistil of the one is about twice as long as that of the other, made me from the first feel very doubtful with respect to this view.
In the long-styled form the pistil is about twice as long as that of the short- styled, and the stamens differ in a corresponding, but reversed, manner.
The pistil of the long-styled is about twice as long as that of the short-styled, with its two stigmas considerably longer, more divergent, and more curled.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "about twice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
