Right now, if you buy a share of Coca Cola you are paying two and half times its growth rate.
House prices were as barmy as in America and Britain, rising by almost two and half times from 2000 to the peak.
They were twice as likely to be poor pupils on free schools meals and two and half times more likely to have special educational needs.
Also superior to A-Rod: Henry Aaron (who homered about two and half times more often than average), Willie McCovey and Ted Williams (both more than three times as often).
It also went on "Children in the manual social classes are twice as likely to die in an accident as those in the non-manual classes, and the poorest two fifths are one and a half times as likely to be at risk of a mental illness as the richest two fifths".
The comparable year of the Reagan recovery, 1984, saw two and a half times that number, 7.2%.
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The region now requires approximately two and a half times more resources than its ecosystems can renew.
Will it lead to a recession in Japan that is two and a half times worse than the U.S. recession?
Sharp boasts its new Aquos Pad SHT 21 tablet can last two and a half times longer than its predecessor.
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Since Brazil relaxed price and production controls on sugar cane two decades ago, its crop has increased by two and a half times.
Glassdoor found that salespeople at enterprise software provider SAP America make two and a half times what most sales reps earn, on average.
Scientists have analyzed two and a half times more data than they had when the first announced the Higgs boson results last July 4.
They instead support a system that sees the United States spending nearly two and a half times more per pupil today than in 1970.
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The share of professional services jobs in the local economy is two and a half times the national average, the highest concentration in the country.
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The chamber is pressurized with pure oxygen, and the pressure inside the chamber will slowly rise to about two and a half times normal atmospheric pressure.
Hence, the CRV, which outsells the Nitro by nearly two and a half times, is available in only 88 possible combinations (a few variations aren't available).
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The Centers for Disease Control reports that in 2009 Latino men had two and a half times the rate of estimated new infections compared to white men.
In other words, the plan was to spend more than two and a half times the average yearly private sector wage to create each temporary stimulus job.
Thanet is the area most affected by youth unemployment where it has reached 13.6% - more than two and a half times higher than the regional average.
Or to put it another way, Spain's banks over seven years would lose a sum equivalent to two and a half times the entire annual output of Portugal.
When you allow for these factors, one sees that the per capita income (based on GDP) has grown about two and a half times over this 45 year period.
Dr Johnson found that those who had taken them were over two and a half times more likely to suffer from asthma later on in childhood than those who had not.
PayPal Mobile announced a 516% increase in global mobile payment volume over last year, and eBay Mobile reported US purchases were nearly two and a half times what they were last year.
By some estimates, it would take nearly two and a half times the 180 million hectares of current U.S. cropland to produce sufficient plant material that could be refined into enough biofuel to replace petroleum diesel altogether.
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Reynolds indicates the median income of households where the head holds a doctorate degree is about two and a half times as large on average as the median income of households where the head holds only a high school degree, and 5 times as large on average as for households where the head holds less than a ninth grade education.
Even before tackling this core problem, the citizen sector is growing jobs at two and a half to three times the rate of the rest of the economy in advanced countries.
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And deaths linked to drink were more than two-and-a-half times higher than in the early 1980s.
In the first quarter there were two-and-a-half times as many cases as last year.
Teacher vacancy rates in London are more than two-and-a-half times the national average.
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