Example sentences of "have more [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |
| 4 | Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers . |
| 5 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 6 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 7 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
| 8 | You will have noted that this has more than doubled between 1983 and 1984 , and increased again in 1985 . |
| 9 | PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline . |
| 10 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 11 | Using its restrictive definition of homelessness , the Department of the Environment estimates that the number of homeless families in England has more than doubled over the past decade to 146000 last year . |
| 12 | The emphasis is on teamwork and on productivity ; our productivity per employee has more than doubled over the past two years . |
| 13 | The number of companies incorporating environmental statements into their reports has more than doubled over the past year — but many of the statements provide little hard information . |
| 14 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 15 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 16 | Crime in Britain has more than doubled since 1979 . |
| 17 | In Hereford and Worcester , the amount of land covered by roads offices and houses has more than doubled since the war.In Gloucestershire the figure is ninety-five per cent , with a similar impact on pasture-land . |
| 18 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 19 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
| 20 | Even after visits made in the extra two hours are excluded there has still been an increase of nearly 39% in night visits from 1989 to 1992 , and the number of night visits has more than doubled in the 10 years since 1982 . |
| 21 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
| 22 | Homelessness has more than doubled in London in the past decade . |
| 23 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
| 24 | National Drinkwise Day was organised against the background of statistics that show alcohol consumption per head has more than doubled in Britain since the Second World War , with alcohol abuse on the increase among the young . |
| 25 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 26 | The figure has more than doubled in just a year . |
| 27 | WELDEX International Offshore , Scotland 's leading crawler-crane hire company , has more than doubled in size after buying Piper Plant ( Scotland ) , a subsidiary of the collapsed Lilley group . |
| 28 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |