Example sentences of "[adj] has [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 | She must know that , by any standards , the number of people in London who have been impoverished since 1979 has more than doubled . |
| 3 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
| 4 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |