High-value hardwoods will grow twice as fast in this loose rubble as in their native forest, because there is plenty of room below ground for the roots to take hold, and no competition from taller trees above ground.

I would be Alice in Wonderland after she ate the cake and grew twice her size.

While black and Latino children, especially in big cities, are disproportionately poor, the poverty rate for young children grew twice as fast among whites as among blacks during the period studied.

He attacked the wall once more, growing twice as chalky as before.

Scalabrine said he saw Pitt grow excited once or twice, when Kobe Bryant did something special.

"International funds grew twice as fast as all funds" in 1993.

He brought it into the boat room and lit it, and the room grew twice as bright Right away they saw what they hadn't noticed before: in the back wall was a door almost as wide as the whole room.

There, nothing obstructed the terrain except the coarse grass, growing twice as tall as the Coursers, north, south, and east, and the isolated mounds of rock standing like prodigious cairns at great distances from each other.

That sand'll be covered when the tide starts coming in, and the river will grow twice its size.

"The emerging markets today are growing at at least twice the rate for the developed economies, or about 6 percent a year," said Josephine Jimenez, senior portfolio manager of Montgomery Emerging Markets.