Example sentences of "have doubled over the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brightreason will now have 20 per cent of the booming pizza market , which has doubled over the last eight years . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mrs Copeland pointed out that Bangor is a designated ‘ growth centre ’ , its population having doubled over the past 25 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 6 | The official Photochemical-Oxidant Review Group believes levels have doubled over the last 100 years , as a result of industrialisation . |
| 7 | Yet prostatic cancer is remarkably common ; coming third in cancer incidence after lung cancer and skin cancer in men , cases have doubled over the past 30 years and , according to experts , look set to double again by the year 2020 . |