Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] doubled [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits at Kode International Plc more than doubled for the year to December 31 as a result of acquisition of DCM Services ( CI No 1,988 ) and substantial increase in both turnover and profits at Kam Circuits . |
| 2 | On Nov. 20 , 1989 , the Finance Ministry presented a supplementary budget of IS4,300 million for the 1989-90 financial year , based on estimates that the deficit on government spending had more than doubled for the year , to IS4,100 million . |
| 3 | The emphasis is on Europe and in July their bookings were more than doubled on the same month last year . |
| 4 | The Group 's oil and gas reserves position more than doubled through the Ultramar acquisition , reaching over 1.1 billion boe of commercial reserves at the end of 1991 . |
| 5 | Almost all of this increase was attributable to the growing proportion of lone mother families , which more than doubled over the period . |
| 6 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 7 | Moreover , both total exports and exports of manufactured goods increased more than GDP , which more than doubled over the whole period . |
| 8 | Using its restrictive definition of homelessness , the Department of the Environment estimates that the number of homeless families in England has more than doubled over the past decade to 146000 last year . |
| 9 | The emphasis is on teamwork and on productivity ; our productivity per employee has more than doubled over the past two years . |
| 10 | The number of companies incorporating environmental statements into their reports has more than doubled over the past year — but many of the statements provide little hard information . |
| 11 | The total fines levied more than doubled over the previous year , from £428,000 to £1.05 million . |
| 12 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 13 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 14 | Since employment growth was relatively modest , the mass of means of production per worker more than doubled over the period . |
| 15 | PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline . |
| 16 | Amongst Labour partisans in particular the influence of the media more than doubled towards the end of the campaign , as Labour readers of right-wing papers switched from pessimism to optimism . |
| 17 | In Hereford and Worcester , the amount of land covered by roads offices and houses has more than doubled since the war.In Gloucestershire the figure is ninety-five per cent , with a similar impact on pasture-land . |
| 18 | The area of the Dalzell works was more than doubled by the end of 1883 , and Colvilles were well on the way to becoming the dominating force in the Scottish steel industry , a position which they retained to the end . |
| 19 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 20 | The state price offered for rice was more than doubled from the " patriotic contribution " level of 7 riel per kg to 15 riel per kg . |
| 21 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 22 | Passenger numbers in America more than doubled in the decade after deregulation , and fares ( adjusted for inflation ) declined by a fifth . |
| 23 | The profit beat City expectations and the shares , which have more than doubled in the past year , rose 5 to 71p . |
| 24 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
| 25 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 26 | Shares in News Corp and its UK arm News International have enjoyed a dramatic recovery and more than doubled in the last year . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Even after visits made in the extra two hours are excluded there has still been an increase of nearly 39% in night visits from 1989 to 1992 , and the number of night visits has more than doubled in the 10 years since 1982 . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months . |
| 30 | Prosecutions of water polluters in the UK more than doubled in the 12 months ending 30 March , compared with the previous year . |