Example sentences of "more [subord] double " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines . |
| 3 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 4 | Despite good intentions and solid backing , the military published only fourteen papers with a circulation of about 70,000 copies , or little more than double that of Gudok alone . |
| 5 | The energy content of fat is more than double that of protein and nearly three times as much as carbohydrate . |
| 6 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 7 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 8 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 9 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 10 | Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain . |
| 11 | Last year , 45 per cent of recorded crime was cleared up — more than double the average rate in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Of the 383 state production plans , 148 had been unable to meet their target — more than double the previous figure of 65 . |
| 13 | By 2031 the average number of homes passed on each year , excluding bequests to spouses , could be 343,000 — more than double the current average ( see chart ) . |
| 14 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 15 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 16 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 17 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 18 | But the effect of this series of pessimistic changes was to more than double the estimates for wave power up to a range of 8–12 p/kWh . |
| 19 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 20 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 21 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 22 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 23 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 24 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 25 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
| 26 | If you are pregnant , or breastfeeding , for example , you will need more than double the recommended daily amount of calcium . |
| 27 | The four ‘ little tigers ’ — Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Korea — have growth rates which , at between eight and eleven per cent , are more than double those for most of the rest of the world . |
| 28 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 29 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
| 30 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |