Usage examples of "double résidence" in French with translation to English

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Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
La somptueuse résidence d'un fonctionnaire du gouvernement a été pillée. The sumptuous residence of a government official was pillaged.
Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit : «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.» He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."
Les animaux de compagnie sont interdits dans cette résidence. No pets are allowed in that apartment house.
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Nous vivons tous dans la même résidence étudiante. We all live in the same dormitory.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
Nous n'avons pu trouver son lieu de résidence. We couldn't find out her whereabouts.
Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.
C'est notre résidence. That's our house.
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
Le jardin qui entoure mon humble demeure n’est séparé que par un sentier de Rosings Park, résidence de Sa Grâce. The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
Le système de chauffage de notre résidence universitaire ne fonctionne pas correctement. Our dorm's heating system isn't working properly.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Pays de résidence Country of residence
Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
Son âge est le double du sien. He is as old again as she is.
Nous allons devoir double notre budget pour l'an prochain. We'll have to double our budget for next year.
Ses revenus sont à présent le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. His income is now double what it was ten years ago.
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