Example sentences of "more than double [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health .
2 If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index .
6 Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir .
7 Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 .
8 Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population .
9 On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period .
13 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 ’ .
14 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 .
15 Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme .
16 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 ) .
17 They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts .
18 The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 .
19 DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence .
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