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Default Re: Are these sentences natural? April 27

1. Do you get a hangover from drinking this?

An "overhang" is a piece of rock which sticks out from a cliff or mountain side. If you search Google images for cliff overhang you'll see some examples. A "hangover" is how you feel after drinking too much.

2. Over the next few years we want to grow this company to twice/double its size.

The expression "to grow a company" is fairly new in the language, and still sounds strange to me. But it's used a lot.

Sentence 3 sounds possible to me.
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