Maybe somebody was in the habit of eating twice.
The Chinese eat only a third the amount of fat Americans do, while eating twice the starch.
"I will groan all the way back to the stables, and you ate twice what I did."
Again, she ate twice what either man did, and then had some more of the white cheese and the dark bread.
We've been out to eat twice in the last year.
The prisoners eat twice per day - the same thing every day.
But I can only afford to eat twice, and it is the same with everybody I know.
I goes, what's the point of me eating twice, you know?
I ate twice, and both meals were unsatisfactory and very expensive!
She and Callahan enjoyed the better restaurants in town, and never ate at the same place twice.