I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
triple jump
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Triple jumper Edwards set a new world record.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bill
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Certainly both Sloan and Fastball were obvious picks to open for Matthew Sweet, and would have made a great triple bill .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
double/triple whammy
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After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
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Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.
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Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.
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In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy .
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Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a triple -layer chocolate cake
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a triple jump in ice skating
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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The average home loan is now almost triple the £13,000 at the beginning of the Eighties.
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The number of flights is expected to rise to 800,000 from 430,000 now, with passenger numbers almost tripling .
nearly
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Between 1997-98 and 1999-00, the number of refugee clients nearly tripled from 1,276 to 3,365.
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You can nearly triple your retirement savings by buying 15-year zero-coupon Treasury bonds.
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And the company is looking toward nearly tripling revenues this year.
■ NOUN
number
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Alias will provide on-site engineering resources at Industrial Light, potentially tripling the number of Alias users via a site-wide software licence.
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During her 12-year tenure at Beacon, annual sales tripled and the number of titles carried annually by the Boston publisher doubled.
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Loans to organic farms and businesses tripled and the number of borrowers rose by more than 50 per cent each year.
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They are particularly bad about retelling a story in the right order, tripling the normal number of errors.
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The Agency has also pledged to triple the number of cleanups of contaminated sites conducted under the Superfund programme by 1993.
size
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Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size .
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According to the World Bank, it will be double that size by 2010 and triple that size by 2035.
■ VERB
double
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Many are forced to double or triple parts, as if in a Brian Rix farce.
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She is doing us a favor by allowing us to double and triple up like this.
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Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
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With these little-known secrets, you can easily double or triple your response!
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This recipe makes enough for two substantial servings but may easily be doubled or tripled .
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It meant doubling or tripling the budget, increasing taxes heavily, and imposing various kinds of economic controls.
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His job was to distribute seeds of improved rice varieties and teach farmers how to double and triple their rice yields.
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Since then, many of those same Internet retailers have doubled or even tripled their sales.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The party's majority in Congress tripled as a result of the election.
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The population of the valley has tripled in the past 20 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between 1997-98 and 1999-00, the number of refugee clients nearly tripled from 1,276 to 3,365.
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For example, employment in plants in a given industrial sector could halve while productivity tripled.
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Since the recommendation was made, some doctors have seen a doubling or tripling of cases.
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They also tripled the concentration of the sucrose in the solution the eggs are exposed to during freezing.
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To begin with, the average length of time per customer transaction tripled, which meant longer lines and increased waiting times.
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Within months, land prices in the southern half of the county tripled.
III. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In an early version, at the beginning of each paragraph the relevant node-link-node triple was printed.
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In the triples, the Prestwick side saw a great fightback just fail to take them to the final.
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It was ruled an error but very easily could have been a triple .