He gets paid faster--within 45 days--whereas earlier it used to take twice as long.

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Still, while underground lines suffer a third of the outages as overhead ones, they take twice as long to repair.

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Projects tackled on very little sleep take twice as long, make me twice as tired, and often end up flat and uninspired.

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The survey also concluded parents now take twice as long to get their babies to sleep in the evening as their parents' generation did - an average of 56 minutes compared to 28.

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The authors of a new paper published by the Brookings Institution estimate that the rise in long-term unemployment alone could cause labour-market recovery to take twice as long as after the 1982 recession.

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With the loan, it will take merely twice as long.

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