Example sentences of "than double from " 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 extension of this power in 1983 to cover elderly people in residential care and nursing homes led to the growth in the number of private home places , which more than doubled from 1979–84 , and was estimated to be continuing to rise ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Aoki ( 1984 p.l5 ) has shown that the ratio of investment in subsidiaries to total paid-in capital in all Japanese industry more than doubled from 1966–81 . |
| 5 | This was less than the absolute growth in part-time male employment in services which more than doubled from 4000 to nearly 9000 . |
| 6 | Between 1980 and 1985 interest payments by third world countries more than doubled from 9 to 20 per cent. , at the same time as average prices for their commodities fell by an average of more than 25 per cent . |
| 7 | The state price offered for rice was more than doubled from the " patriotic contribution " level of 7 riel per kg to 15 riel per kg . |
| 8 | On the Tyne and Wear the daily rate for pitmen more than doubled from 1793 to 1815 , from around 2s ( 10p ) to 4 to 5s ( 20-25p ) , bringing a real improvement of 20 to 30 per cent . |
| 9 | This , the Government says , explains why those receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
| 10 | This , the Government says , explains why the number receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
| 11 | They say that over only a four-year period , the number of undergraduate students at Liverpool JMU has more than doubled from under 10,000 to nearly 20,000 . |