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twice predeterminer adverb

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Definition

two times
I've already asked him twice.
The post comes twice daily (= two times every day).
There are twice as many houses in this area as there used to be.
The state is at least twice as big as England.
He's twice her size (= much bigger than she is).

(Definition of twice predeterminer/adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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