Example sentences of "[verb] doubled [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |
| 2 | The amount of rhino horn entering Yemen has doubled over the last 20 months , apparently as a result of increased poaching activity in Zimbabwe and Swaziland . |
| 3 | The number of companies mentioning environmental issues in their annual reports has doubled over the last year to around 18 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | Brightreason will now have 20 per cent of the booming pizza market , which has doubled over the last eight years . |
| 5 | People know there is no tourism policy , and the number of personnel has doubled over the last years , but are we getting better services ? |
| 6 | Membership , for example , has doubled in the last five years . |
| 7 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 8 | Margins and jobs are still shrinking in many industries and corporate debt has doubled in the last five years . |
| 9 | Yet the need is such that our spending at home and overseas has doubled in the last two years and still vital pieces of work in the U K and overseas await funding . |
| 10 | In particular the area 's unemployment rate which has doubled in the last 18 months . |
| 11 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 12 | His argument will pivot on the spiralling bill for legal aid , which has doubled in the last five years , reaching £83 million last year . |
| 13 | I mean , on the whole and in the past I think that has been true , but the proportion of mature students , that 's undergraduates over the age of twenty-five has erm has doubled in the last erm ten years . |
| 14 | Another UNICEF report , Child Poverty and Deprivation in the United Kingdom , showed that the number of children living in poverty in the UK had doubled in the last decade . |
| 15 | The official Photochemical-Oxidant Review Group believes levels have doubled over the last 100 years , as a result of industrialisation . |
| 16 | The Employment Secretary has told jobless people in Gloucestershire the county is better off for work than most places … even though dole queues have doubled in the last two years . |
| 17 | Murders in Moscow have doubled in the last year , still modest totals by US standards , but appalling in a city once acknowledged as the safest capital in the world . |