Example sentences of "than doubled " in BNC.

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1 These factors help explain some of the reasons why the total number of ACET clients covered at any one time by our on call service in London has more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to over 150 by March 1991 ; and why the nature of the services required has become so much more sophisticated .
2 These factors help to explain why the total number of clients covered at any one time by our London 24 hour on-call service more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to 150 by March 1991 ; and why the provision of service has had to become so much more sophisticated .
3 THE ACQUISITIVE advertising and marketing company WCRS Group more than doubled pre-tax profits to £38.1m for the year to June , largely the result of a first full year contribution from its French affiliate Carat .
4 AITKEN HUME International , the financial services group chaired by Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken , more than doubled pre-tax profits to £1.449m in the six months to 30 September .
5 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 .
6 Property profit more than doubled , to almost £15million .
7 Property profit more than doubled , to almost £15million .
8 The Royal Ulster Constabulary said that punishment shootings by republican and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland more than doubled to 155 this year , compared with 66 in 1988 ..
9 The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years .
10 EAST Germany 's industrial production dropped last month and the number of unfulfilled output targets has more than doubled , worsening consumer shortages and hurting export commitments .
11 In addition , the CEGB has more than doubled , from £3.1 billion to £6.4 billion , the extra provisions needed ‘ for work still to be carried out on nuclear fuel and wastes from past years ’ .
12 Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 .
13 Its presence in the atmosphere has more than doubled since pre-industrial ( mid-eighteenth century ) times .
14 Between 1985 and 1989 the dollar value of exports more than doubled ; planners excitedly began to talk about Korea becoming a creditor nation .
15 Passenger numbers in America more than doubled in the decade after deregulation , and fares ( adjusted for inflation ) declined by a fifth .
16 Salomon more than doubled its first-quarter net income , to a record $273m .
17 As it turned out , he was interviewed only perfunctorily six months later , because events had moved fast in Germany and her neighbouring countries and to meet any threat to Britain , her allies , her interests and her Empire , the Services , particularly the Army , had more than doubled their manpower .
18 Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled .
19 Careful planning is essential , and remember that production from a small plot can be more than doubled by intercropping and catch cropping .
20 If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches .
21 The number of men in all four major denominations who had done a university degree more than doubled between 1870 and 1900 , from 14 to 37 per cent .
22 During the past year it has more than doubled .
23 Exports of Australian wines to Britain — French wine 's second biggest export market after Germany — have more than tripled and those from California more than doubled since 1987 .
24 In the past year the number of catalogued CD-ROM titles has more than doubled to more than 2,000 and looks likely to continue to grow just as fast .
25 The anglers were not expected to match that catch rate , as the most effective early season methods were not permitted by the rules , but the winners more than doubled it .
26 The profit beat City expectations and the shares , which have more than doubled in the past year , rose 5 to 71p .
27 Applications from parents have more than doubled in three years .
28 PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline .
29 THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years .
30 THE annual rate of inflation was reduced by more than half during the three Conservative administrations after May , 1979 , but unemployment more than doubled during that time .
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