Example sentences of "double in the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the combined turnover of both businesses has doubled in the past two years to £500,000 , ANTA 's American sales have fallen because of the fall of the dollar . |
| 2 | The proportion of women in the top three grades has almost doubled in the past four years . |
| 3 | Reported car crimes in Oxford are running at 600 per month ; car crime has doubled in the past four years , constituting one third of all crime reported in the city , and this year 's figures are one third up on last year 's . |
| 4 | After visits during these extra two hours were excluded , claims increased by 38.7% from 1989 to 1992 and more than doubled in the past 10 years . |
| 5 | Private car ownership has almost doubled in the past 10 years , to 1.9 million in 1992 , and is predicted to rise to 2.5 million by 1995 . |
| 6 | The ownership and use of cars in the Netherlands has doubled in the past fifteen years . |
| 7 | In many cities the price of firewood has nearly doubled in the past six years . |
| 8 | Having doubled in the past fifty years to five billion , the world 's population is expected to increase by a further one billion in the 1990s alone . |
| 9 | The population of Snaith has doubled in the past 25 years but it is still small enough to ‘ know everybody ’ ; ask for people by name , rather than by their address ! |
| 10 | The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years . |
| 11 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 12 | And so , yes it is a big problem and it seems to be increasing , er the number of sufferers has doubled in the past ten years and we , we do n't really know why yet . |
| 13 | The crime rate has doubled in the past 12 years , and there has been a whirlwind of crime committed by young people : 50 per cent . |