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Example sentences of "[adj] have [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 .
2	By 1979 this had more than doubled ( Social Survey Division , OPCS , 1981 ) .
3	During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 .
4	She must know that , by any standards , the number of people in London who have been impoverished since 1979 has more than doubled .
5	The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 .
6	The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’
7	It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	By 1987 the number accepted as homeless had more than doubled to 118,000 .
11	The sterling bond market apart from gilt-edged had all but ceased to exist .
12	A further factor responsible for injecting money into the economy had been an increase in foreign investment which in 1989 had more than doubled .
13	THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order .
14	Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface .