"double" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The number of people who said that they felt in control of their life doubled following Rape Crisis counselling, and mental health symptoms such as flashbacks and panic attacks were alleviated in around a third of the women who had initially reported these problems.
- The size of the conference nearly doubled following an act of 1957 that provided for the appellate and district judges in each circuit to elect a district judge to represent the circuit on the conference for a term of three years.
- Enrollment rapidly doubled to 1,100 following the war, and students were forced to sleep in the gym.
- Moving faster than was really good for his injured leg, he doubled back toward the front of the gutted house, following his own trail in the ashes.
- Divorce rates doubled in the 1970s, following the legislation in 1969 which introduced the irretrievable breakdown of marriage as a ground for divorce.
- By the end of 1968 there were at least 1,300 Moroccan workers resident in Gibraltar and this more than doubled following the final closure of the frontier with Spain in June 1969.
- There had been many frustrating periods where the caravan doubled back on itself, following sinuous reverse-loops in the walls.
- The risk of esophageal cancer nearly doubled in the first two years following alcohol cessation, a sharp increase that may be due to the fact that some people only stop drinking when they are already experiencing disease symptoms.
- On this section of the Skyway, the road lay across the mounting terrain like a carelessly dropped ribbon, twisting painfully into complicated figures, doubling back on itself, following a route laid out by.
- The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m.
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