Sentence examples for double official from inspiring English sources

A rough calculation of purchasing power parity suggests the correct figure for Chinese defense spending could be double official estimates.

Their emergence coincides with a Chinese general's call to double official military spending, against a background of wider cuts in military budgets in industrialised countries caused by the global financial crisis.

The share of India's farmland that is irrigated could roughly double, officials say.

Officials turned down a five-year contract last week that would have doubled officials' pay by 2003.

In the past 24 hours, the number of cases doubled, officials said, and at one point, 15 new cases were being reported each hour.

Many economists believe it is roughly double the official rate of 9%.

Black marketeers now charge double the official price.Use your loafSubsidised bread is still plentiful.

Analysts say the unemployment and inflation rates are about 20 percent, nearly double the official figures of 11.8 percent and 12.2 percent respectively.

Consumer-price inflation is already at 3.3% and expected to rise above 4% (double the official target rate) later this year.

Rescuers said one ferry, sailing from Dhaka to southern districts, was carrying 400 passengers, double its official capacity.

France said Thursday that it expected to nearly double its official economic growth forecast for 2010, which stood at 0.75 percent in the budget presented in September.