half again
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[edit]- One and a half times, 150%
- 1965, Robert Riley Crutcher, “What's Buggin' Hazel”, in William D. Russell, director, Hazel, season 4, episode 22, spoken by Dorothy Baxter (Whitney Blake):
- George just talked to a friend of his downtown; he has a new job for Gus! And, it pays half again as much as he's been making.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maji planet description:
- Maji orbits the Vamshi binary giant stars. Vamshi-A is a blue star of spectral class A4III which burns at half again the temperature of Sol. Vamshi-B is an aging red giant of class M5III, over 220 times the size of Sol.