Sentence examples for almost triple the amount from inspiring English sources

In Port Vila fresh kava fetches almost triple the amount it did two years ago.

This year, the group are reportedly worth an estimated £14m each, almost triple the amount of 2013's earnings.

That's 99 times last year's national movie box-office receipts, and almost triple the amount people wagered in 1989.

Americans booked $6.5 billion in leisure and business travel online in 1999, almost triple the amount booked in 1998, according to Jupiter.

Yet one regular sized bar contains eight teaspoons of sugar, almost triple the amount recommended as a limit for a four- to eight-year-old child by the US Department of Health and Human Services' dietary guidelines.

Banks in Europe have issued a combined $318 billion of unsecured debt so far this year, almost triple the amount raised by their American counterparts, according to the data provider Dealogic.

That in effect almost triples the amount of capital banks must hold against home loans.

Officials also almost tripled the amount of foreign investment allowed in China's capital markets, to $80 billion.Nicholas Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank, cautions against too much excitement.

On the same day that he spoke China's securities regulator almost tripled the amount of money that foreign funds can invest in capital markets, to $80 billion.The price of carbon permits in the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme plummeted to another record low, after data suggested that Europe had produced a smaller amount of polluting emissions last year than had been thought.

In From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel, the authors write that since the 1950s, "we've almost tripled the amount of material goods in the average North American's possession".

Inclusion of a biodegradable filler almost tripled the amount of gentamicin release compared to its release in the absence of fillers.