Example sentences of "than double " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cricketers the world over , and England 's highly-respected umpires in particular , were stunned after the TCCB more than doubled Lamb 's original fine , which was already a maximum for a county committee to impose . |
| 2 | More than doubled what he 's got . |
| 3 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 4 | And er we got the results now and er we more than doubled it . |
| 5 | Income from the TV Times jumped from £1.4million to £2.1million with interest receivable more than doubling to £3.2million . |
| 6 | Fortunately , samples from recent excavations have subsequently become available , and the project has now produced twenty radiocarbon results : more than doubling the previous total for actual skeletons from British Beaker burials . |
| 7 | Moreover , entry into the EC has added a new and ever-expanding dimension to the Prime Minister 's homework , more than doubling it . |
| 8 | The LRPPP , with its heavy reliance on massive coal-fired power plants , would produce an extra 830 000 tonnes of CO 2 each year , more than doubling current emissions by 2000 . |
| 9 | Claims that the Conservative government has successfully protected the countryside by , among other things , more than doubling the amount of approved Green Belt since 1979 . |
| 10 | ( This is despite the birth of our new sister title , the superb Fishkeeping Answers now the clear number two in the market more than doubling the sales of any other rival ) . |
| 11 | For England and Wales , this has also been a period of considerable growth , with the prison population more than doubling between 1950 and 1980 , from 20,400 to 50,000 . |
| 12 | It is obvious that humans have far bigger brains than even our closest relatives and the fossil record suggests that the rate of evolution has been spectacularly fast , the brain size more than doubling in less than two million years ( see e.g. Foley , Another unique Species ) . |
| 13 | From 1990–1 , however , the government proposes to alter the balance between these methods of finance , more than doubling the tuition fees and correspondingly reducing the direct funding of higher education institutions . |
| 14 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 15 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 16 | Present trends could lead to consumption more than doubling by 2020 , the council says , and although energy is abundant at present , governments should take early action to secure supplies . |
| 17 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 18 | Workshop more than doubles LTS 's workspace |
| 19 | The new Kirkhill workshop more than doubles LTS 's workspace at Dyce and increases the lifting capacity of overhead cranage to 10 tonnes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Property profit more than doubled , to almost £15million . |
| 26 | Property profit more than doubled , to almost £15million . |
| 27 | 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 .. |
| 28 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |