I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a double bed (= a bed for two people )
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Would you like a double bed or twin beds?
a double bedroom (= with a big bed for two people )
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I'd like to book a double bedroom for two nights, please.
a double celebration (= for two good things )
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It’s a double celebration for our first wedding anniversary and my birthday.
a double chin (= loose skin under your chin that looks like a second chin )
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Frank was much fatter now and he had a double chin.
a double meaning (= two meanings at the same time )
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Everything he said had a double meaning.
a double portion (= twice as large as a normal one )
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I ordered a double portion of chicken.
a double shift (= when someone works two shifts one after the other )
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He is only halfway through a 20-hour double shift.
a double/two-car garage (= for two cars )
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The house had a double garage.
a number doubles (= becomes twice as big )
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The number of road accidents has doubled in the last ten years.
approach/reach/go into etc double figures
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The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.
bent double (= with the top part of your body leaning forward towards your legs )
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He breathed in deeply, bent double in pain .
body double
double act
double agent
double bass
double bed
double bill
double bind
double bluff
double boiler
double chin
double click
double cream British English , heavy cream American English (= thick cream )
double cream
double date
double dealer
double digits
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Sam’s team scored in the double digits in nine out of ten games.
double duty
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The sofa does double duty as a guest bed.
double entendre
double fault
double feature
double figures
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King’s was the only other score in double figures.
double first
double glazing
double helix
double in value
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The house doubled in value over two years.
double indemnity
double jeopardy
double life
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Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
double negative
double play
double quick
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Call an ambulance double quick!
double spacing (= lines with one empty line after each one )
double standard
double take
double time
double vision (= when you see two of everything around you )
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One of the symptoms of the illness is double vision.
double vision
double whammy
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the double whammy of higher prices and more taxes
double yellow lines (= two lines of paint that mean you cannot park there at any time )
in double figures (= between 10 and 99 )
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Only two of the group had scores in double figures.
lead a double life (= deceive people by keeping different parts of your life separate and not letting anyone know the whole truth )
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Joe had been leading a double life, seeing an ex-model while his wife believed he was on business.
lead/live a double life
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Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
mixed doubles
reach double/six etc figures (= be 10 or more/100,000 or more etc )
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The death toll in the region has reached five figures.
scored in the double digits
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Sam’s team scored in the double digits in nine out of ten games.
single/double room (= a room in a hotel for one person or for two )
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I’d like to book a double room for two nights.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
album
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As an Eric Clapton fan, I recommend this double album without the slightest hesitation.
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There are certainly far more double albums out there that are worse.
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A double album of greatest hits and misses, which concentrates on their later years.
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A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.
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I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album !!
bed
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Liz Norton Both the YC-5 and YC-6 can be used for double bed knitting.
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A double bed with starched white sheets covering a too-soft mattress fills most of the space.
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Choose either a suite with double bed or large suite with double bed plus double bed settee for one or two children.
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I looked longingly at the bed , but it was a double bed.
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Bedroom with two single beds which makes a double bed if required.
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We squashed side by side in the small double bed which I shared with Grandma when she came to stay.
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Harriet had put them in her smaller guest-room which had a double bed .
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John feels it's the double bed that worries his Dad, not the puppet.
bill
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But sometimes a double bill would show at the Ritz and nowhere else.
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He guessed they were on their way to Badstoneleigh because of the double bill at the Pavilion.
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A double bill in the afternoon.
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In the early 1960s one result of shrinking cinema audiences was the Sunday double bill of low budget horror movies.
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Now that's a double bill .
door
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I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside.
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One of the double doors opened and a nurse peered out.
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He followed her as they approached the green-and-gold-painted double doors leading to the ballroom.
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His knock sounded the emptiness of the rooms behind the double doors .
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To the right, open double doors hinted at shadowy figures.
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The double doors stood partly open.
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Several of the Lancre guests were glancing at the big double doors , shut for this official ceremony.
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He joined the slow column heading out of the double doors of the Kitchen.
garage
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To the right there was a ramp down to a double garage on basement level.
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Each Hadon home has a double garage .
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It includes master bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further bedrooms, second bathroom, gas central heating, double garage .
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The house had a double garage which Millar turned into a study and office.
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It was the size of a double garage , open on one side, built of stone and roofed with tiles.
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Number forty-seven was a huge red-brick house in gracious grounds, with a double garage and parking space for three more cars.
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A coach-house of slightly later vintage served as a double garage .
meaning
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This gives a double meaning to Blanche's hatred of naked light.
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Old rivalries are barely submerged and every quip has a deadly double meaning .
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No, there was no double meaning in what he'd said.
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Sniggers and the double meanings surrounded the subject which was one of the biggest taboos in our society.
murder
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Why would a double murder in Cologne have been passed to counter-intelligence?
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News of a double murder trial filled the papers.
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He wondered what Berowne was expecting him to do; find a potential blackmailer or investigate him for double murder ?
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Convicted of a brutal rape and double murder , he claims innocence, but is a hate-filled racist.
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No one has claimed responsibility for the double murder .
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Danilov's double murder looks small beer in comparison.
room
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We can also book twin or double rooms in nearby houses for your sole use for a £55 supplement.
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She was in a double room .
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The door closed behind Tweed as he scanned the luxuriously furnished double room which overlooked Albemarle Street.
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It features 10 shower rooms , five single day rooms with showers and a double room with shower.
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On Friday 1 June and Saturday 2 June there are no single or double rooms available.
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Beds in a double room are $ 18. 25 and a single room is $ 36. 50.
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A double room at the 100room former home of the Havelock-Allan family is £98.
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If you were sleeping with me, I'd have booked a double room .
standard
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No wonder this Government is so despised - Major's double standards smack of deviousness.
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Patricia Schroeder of Colorado remains a cautionary symbol of the unfair double standard in the let-your-emotions-all-hang-out department.
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This double standard of mores and values between attitudes to men and women was evident throughout the survey.
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The double standard that divided the privileged and the poor, men and women, educated and uneducated was pervasive.
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This is a double standard which fails to interpret fairly an important aspect of male-female differences.
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There seem to be double standards at work here.
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In practice, of course, twelfth-century society adopted a double standard on the subject.
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With blatant double standards such as this, the West's claim of taking a moral and ethical stand is vacuous.
thickness
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Turn out the cake and wrap in a double thickness of greaseproof and foil until ready to decorate.
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They are then retained on the sail by tape made into double thickness tags.
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Stand tins on a baking tray lined with a double thickness of brown paper.
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The frill is obtained by sewing a channel through a double thickness of fabric below the top of the curtain.
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Cut round the design through the double thickness of paper.
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He pulled the double thickness of the cloak tighter around him and wondered briefly why he had not worn his hiking clothes.
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For a round neck, the band can be single or double thickness but a V-neck band can only be single thickness.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do a double take
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Colleagues and friends often walked past me in the hallway, then stopped and did a double take.
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He had to do a double take, bumping into a filing cabinet.
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When he got to Mrs Luegerhe had never known her first name-he did a double take.
do double duty
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Choose a sofa that will do double duty as a guest bed.
double-page spread/centre spread
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 ?
see double
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Selma complained of seeing double.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Double rooms cost $80, single rooms are $50.
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A double brandy, please.
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a double cheeseburger
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I ordered fish and a double portion of chips.
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I pushed the double doors open and walked into the office.
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Last year she suffered the double blow of losing her father and discovering that she had cancer.
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Leave the dough in a warm place to rise until it is double in bulk.
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Mortensen had a double motive for going to San Francisco: to see his kids and to apply for a job.
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She's doing a double major in political science and economics.
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She drove over the double yellow line and crashed head-on into a truck.
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The band has just released a new double album.
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The report and photographs fitted nicely onto a double page.
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The room contained a double bed, a wardrobe, and a small chest of drawers.
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These classes are taught over a double class period by one teacher.
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You cannot park on double yellow lines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before talking about the types of window you can choose, let's look briefly at the question of double glazing.
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During this time the best double petunias were named varieties raised from cuttings.
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He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy.
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It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector.
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Johnson had not scored in double figures in the first five games.
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President Clinton's nomination represents a double snub say critics.
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The house had a double garage which Millar turned into a study and office.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mixed
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There were four competitions: men's singles, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
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Because I must have been noticed, I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles .
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On Sunday play starts with the mixed doubles at 9am with the men's open singles starting at 10am.
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Among the guests, with girl-friend Babs Feltus, was some one who also knows about mixed doubles - Boris Becker.
■ VERB
complete
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He completed his personal Test double , by scoring six runs. 5.
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Boro goalkeeper Stephen Pears has completed a notable double .
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And who completed the Test double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in his last match as captain? 11.
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There, Arazi asserted his superiority, prompting Corals to quote him 4-1 to complete the Kentucky-Epsom Derby double .
play
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Because I must have been noticed, I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles .
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Harriet played in tennis doubles and her public school boyfriends crowded in to eat her jam tarts.
win
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In 1883 she and Ann won the consolation doubles at the Northern Championships in Manchester.
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Knox also won the doubles championship, teaming with Claire Curren.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stunt double
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Caroline is virtually her mother's double .
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Goodrich worked as a double for John Wayne.
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Hrbek led the inning with a double .
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Rooms cost $95 for a double .
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Three whiskeys, please - two singles and one double .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Double success at Engineering Two awards in quick succession have earned Courtaulds Engineering a gratifying safety double.
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Had the ball landed, Johnson had a double or perhaps his fifth triple.
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If you roll two doubles for distance then the horses collapse with exhaustion and the model is removed from the battle.
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Southern League Champions, Oxford are after the double .
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Ospreys have been recorded annually since 1947, except in 1948, but since 1961 numbers have almost doubled .
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Peristaltic garments could almost double blood flow in healthy subjects.
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Imports of capital goods rose 50. 7 percent and consumer goods almost doubled in 1995, it said.
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The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space.
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The New York gallery will be expanded to almost double its present size, to19,000 square feet.
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General mobilization was designed to raise the strength to 32 million, but this number was almost doubled in 1914.
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If your design is in three of four colours, then the amount of memory needed is almost doubled .
back
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They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car.
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The way moves cast, and then doubles back , labyrinth-like, to head north and up the stairs.
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There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them.
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But our dinner doubled back away from the marksmen and headed over a ridge.
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He doubled back to tell Holly she had written a nice piece on Donaldson.
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But Vicenza was half way from Venice to Verona, so if they did that they would all be doubling back .
effectively
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In April IR35 effectively doubled my tax burden.
nearly
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Average incomes have nearly doubled , from $ 1,300 to $ 2,500.
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And the re-enlistment rate for first-term mechanics had nearly doubled .
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The party nearly doubled its support to 21.5 percent in communal elections in Carinthia on March 10, 1991.
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Their number has nearly doubled since 1947.
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Illustrated fundamental problem of ownership-\#nearly doubles journeys made.
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It nearly doubled his monthly wage, from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.
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Vehicle thefts have nearly doubled in two years.
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Everyone was polite, cordial, and nearly doubled up with pain.
over
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She felt her legs being secured in that position, so she was doubled over to look like a sandwich.
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They were doubled over , poking at each other, making cryptic comments and bursting again into laughter.
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The man doubled over and screamed.
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I felt a thump against my abdomen and it became necessary to double over in order to facilitate breathing.
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Carrefour faltered, doubling over as the bullet caught him just below the sternum.
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Sometimes doubling over in anguish, Vega described her murdered cousin as a beautiful person who has gone to a beautiful place.
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The company, whose stock market value has doubled over the past year, is currently valued at about £9700m.
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By midnight I was doubled over .
roughly
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This roughly doubled the number of known and treated hypertensives in the practice.
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Company sales rose 15 percent last year and have roughly doubled every five years.
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This roughly doubles the number of young from a spawning.
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Candidates who follow the limits could receive roughly double that amount from each donor.
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In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled , with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed.
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Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.
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A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
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Summers and Clark also discovered that unemployment insurance roughly doubles the number of people who stay unemployed for more than three months.
up
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Its small form factor allows two computers, in close proximity, to double up on the 10BaseT hub.
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Men can double up on all three groups.
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All the grooms doubled up with laughter.
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He was still doubled up and he had his head in his hands.
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A good whack gives a bad ache and may even double up your opponent.
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They pull the woman, who is trying to stay doubled up , towards the door.
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The highlander doubled up , eyes crossed and streaming.
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Everyone was polite, cordial, and nearly doubled up with pain.
virtually
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With increased services the company has virtually doubled its employees from 6,500 a decade ago to more than 13,000 today.
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Her sister Jean also had osteoporosis, and she was virtually doubled up when she died, aged 80.
■ NOUN
amount
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Since February buyers have taken up 1.5m bales, double the amount in the same period last year.
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It has just about doubled the amount of candidates.
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If the Tories were elected Mr Streeter would double the amount of the bilateral aid budget that goes to the charities.
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Candidates who follow the limits could receive roughly double that amount from each donor.
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After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced.
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Her only other suggestion was to double the amount of vanilla, to give it a flavor boost.
bill
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Energy costs have also hit hard: some mid-westerners' heating bills have nearly doubled in a year.
capacity
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Expansion plans announced over the weekend will enable the company to double its manufacturing capacity .
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The second generation will double that capacity .
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The scheme will nearly double the seating capacity of the stadium, creating an additional 7,650 seats.
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With Stacker 3.0 it's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package's customisable compression features.
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The Morestore can be expanded by the simple addition of a module unit, which doubles the storage capacity .
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The new satellite will double the country's capacity for information gathering from space.
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The brewhouse he installed then is now being replicated in mirror image to double that capacity .
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A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
cost
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Equipping a plant to cope with carbon dioxide is likely to double its cost .
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We are also paying less for clothes but housing and motoring have doubled in cost .
figure
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By 1972, that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase.
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This year, he expects that figure to double .
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On the benchmark figure that is about double what it should be.
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The figure , double that of the previous year, is blamed on the vast increase in the use of the internet.
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At Liverpool John Moores University, the figure has doubled since 1989.
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By 1957 this figure had doubled to 4 million and by 1961 had trebled to 6 million.
income
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Automobile workers had doubled their incomes and expanded their skills.
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Perhaps that way, he thought, he might even be able to double his income .
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That sum doubles their monthly income .
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Clare doubled her income overnight, and felt that she was doing a useful job.
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In just one year, they had doubled their income .
market
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Sharp cuts in its prices in the autumn doubled its market share, but lowered profits.
membership
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Membership To double the current membership in ten years.
money
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New Scientist said that the government was planning to double its money for space in the next few years.
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Clever inventions and innovations that merely double your money would not make the cut anymore.
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Control has almost doubled its money .
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He more than doubled his money .
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Bishop David has already appealed to us to double the money we give to the Church wherever we can.
number
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Ospreys have been recorded annually since 1947, except in 1948, but since 1961 numbers have almost doubled .
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Their number has nearly doubled since 1947.
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This number is projected to double by 2021.
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General mobilization was designed to raise the strength to 32 million, but this number was almost doubled in 1914.
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Twenty years later the number of primaries doubled to thirty-two, electing 71 percent of the convention delegates.
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Each time the cells divide, the number of cells doubles .
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The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938, five times the level reported ten years earlier.
numbers
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Not only have tigers doubled in numbers , but other species and habitats have benefited.
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Because it was single-sided, the groove pitch was doubled to allow two numbers on each disc.
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They would double the numbers against you.
population
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Between 1898 and 1930 the population of Chicago doubled , to become some three million people.
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Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled , urban population tripled and national income more than tripled.
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Demographers project that its population will double in size within a generation.
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Combined with industrial and commercial developments, it enabled Catalonia to support a population that doubled within the eighteenth century.
price
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They cost around £60a-week, but if there's been a baby boom in the area prices can double !
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Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
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Imagine how many times restaurants and merchants had to change their posted prices during the inflationary 1970s, when prices almost doubled .
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Price controls were lifted from 85 percent of goods, causing prices on average to double in the course of January alone.
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Not only was admission going to increase, the price of popcorn was doubling to a dime.
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Sharp cuts in its prices in the autumn doubled its market share, but lowered profits.
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While whole bean prices more than doubled , gourmet coffee bars pushed up their prices by a far lower percentage.
profit
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Thorn's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m.
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The chain of recreational-vehicle and boat stores posted fiscal 1995 earnings of 20 cents a share, doubling the year-earlier profit .
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It took us three years to do it, but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits .
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Exxon Mobil, Shell and Texaco have also nearly doubled profits in that period.
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Harry Potter continues to spin his magic, doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
rate
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A doubling of the set-aside rate is not good news, coming at a time when every penny counts.
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In 1990, Tucson had a poverty rate 40 percent higher than Phoenix and almost double the rate of Las Vegas.
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Meanwhile Hughes is hoping to double his strike rate for Northern Ireland.
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Last year it was increased by 20 percent across the three engine capacity bands - double the inflation rate .
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A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation.
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They will roughly double their peeking rates from 10 to 20 peeks per minute following disturbance by a cat.
sale
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The Mintel report predicted sales would more than double again by the end of 2000.
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Dataquest predicts that world chip sales will more than double to about $ 331 billion by the year 2000.
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Soon InterCity were claiming that sales had doubled to 5 million a year.
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Encouraged by friendlier tax treatment, U.K. sales could double between now and 1997.
share
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Sharp cuts in its prices in the autumn doubled its market share , but lowered profits.
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Lockheed Martin has said it wants to double its share of the satellite launch market to 50 percent.
size
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Enterprise also plan to expand their estate by acquiring more pubs, aiming to double in size by 1996.
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Cover and let rise about 1 hour or until nearly doubled in size .
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Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Cover and allow to rise until the dough has doubled in size or is cresting over the bread pans.
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It covers the years of acquisition from 1986 to 1989 and almost doubles the size of the collection.
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Cover and proof until doubled in size , about 45 minutes to 1 1 / 2 hours.
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Now it is doubling the size of its Stelrad baths, boilers and radiators division with the Caradon purchase.
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Management was planning to spend $ 1 million to double the size of the tipping floor, where the trucks unloaded.
space
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The firm is also doubling its floor space as of June 15 when it adds adjacent offices in Marlborough to its plot.
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By 1996, the group plans to inject £85m and double its airport retailing space .
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The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space .
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New Scientist said that the government was planning to double its money for space in the next few years.
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The expansion nearly doubles the library's space .
value
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Those in mint condition have doubled in value over the last two years to around £50.
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Those certificates nearly doubled in value within hours after the appeals court decision was announced last summer.
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If Jamie Mitchell filled his rust bucket up with petrol, it'd double the value .
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But for it to get back to $ 20 it has to double in value , going up 100 percent.
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Low income families would be compensated by doubling the value of child benefit over the life of a parliament.
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How do you double the value of a Trabant, for instance?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do a double take
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Colleagues and friends often walked past me in the hallway, then stopped and did a double take.
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He had to do a double take, bumping into a filing cabinet.
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When he got to Mrs Luegerhe had never known her first name-he did a double take.
do double duty
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Choose a sofa that will do double duty as a guest bed.
double-page spread/centre spread
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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Building costs have doubled since then.
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In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size.
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Ralph doubled up his blankets and put them at the foot of the bed.
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The federal government has doubled its tax on liquor.
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The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.
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Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.
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Cleverly used it will double , treble, even quadruple the size.
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In all the nine studies of monitoring, the number of cesarean deliveries was doubled in the group that was monitored.
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In Leicester youth court, the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates.
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Quarterly losses at Freeserve, Britain's biggest internet service provider, doubled to nearly $ 27m.
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So the thought of watching a film in which he doubles, triples and quadruples was frankly a most scary prospect.
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The bass may however, always be doubled at the octave below if desired.
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The mess deck doubles as the movie lounge, with a video library housing thousands of films.
IV. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Kasparov knows full well, the years count double once a chess player passes 35.
V. predeterminer
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Over 30% of marriages end in divorce, which is double the number 20 years ago.
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The house is now worth double the amount we paid for it.