The Earl of Beaconsfield was prime minister twice, a Jewish-born Anglican convert of Portuguese origins with a predilection for writing romantic novels.
They obtain patents at twice the rate of American-born people with the same educational credentials.
Foreign-born scientists are more than twice as likely to win a U.S.-based Nobel Prize as their American-born colleagues, and are overrepresented in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
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Mantel is the third author to win the prize twice, alongside South-African-born J.
Brighton-born Virgo was selected twice by Scotland at B international level.
Per capita income there is 26 percent below the national average, and 27 percent of its residents are foreign-born, more than twice the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Immigrants are twice as likely to start businesses as native-born Americans, and statistics show that most job growth comes from small businesses.
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Immigrants from countries with relatively small numbers in the overall population, such as Greece, are disproportionately more likely to own businesses, while immigrant women are twice as likely as U.S.-born women to be business owners.
And immigrants continue to be more than twice as likely to start new businesses as were native-born Americans.
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Babies born to working-class mothers were twice as likely to die before their first birthday as those with middle-class parents.
London-born Broster, 28, was capped twice on Wales' June 2005 tour to north America, as a replacement against Canada before starting against the United States.
The Brazil-born striker, who has represented Portugal twice, scored twice in the first half and then clinched victory with two minutes to go after Michael Dingsdag's free-kick looked to have earned the hosts a point.
The result in 2012 is that immigrants are nearly twice as likely to start a business each month as are native-born individuals.
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