Example sentences of "more [conj] triple " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 2 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 3 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Africa 's debt has more than tripled since 1980 . |
| 5 | And in that time the number of share-owners has more than tripled to more than nine million . |
| 6 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 7 | This is more than triple the national average , itself one of the worst in the developed world . |
| 8 | It is worth remembering that the UK at the time of this publication was already adrift of the best practice elsewhere , with fatality rates double those of the Netherlands for pedestrians and more than triple those of Sweden for children . |
| 9 | Digital Equipment Corp says more than 1,400 technical and commercial applications and software products for the Alpha RISC will be ready to ship by the end of June : the total includes products from 500 software developers worldwide , as well as DEC itself , for the AXP and OpenVMS AXP operating systems on Alpha AXP and is more than triple the 400 available at the end of last month . |
| 10 | Si paid more than triple the estimate for False Start when Sotheby 's New York auctioned the collection of the late Victor Granz . |
| 11 | ABOUT 2,000 young Sunday footballers intend to rally in Dundee City Square this weekend in protest at council plans more than to triple the cost of pitches and dressing rooms . |
| 12 | Medical research company Medirace , which is trying to develop a drug to treat cancer and Aids , is more than tripling its size through an £87million takeover . |
| 13 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 14 | The straight abolitionists , meanwhile , had more than tripled , to 17% . |
| 15 | By 1992-93 , we will have more than tripled the original £15 million budget allocation for the know-how fund . |
| 16 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |