Sentence examples for double the initial from inspiring English sources
Nearing the end of a decadelong fund-raising campaign, Columbia University announced yesterday that it had raised $2.74 billion -- more than double the initial goal in 1990.
The agreement closely resembles the pact rejected by Puerto Rico in December, with one important exception: an offer to more than double the initial $40 million aid package.
The Associated Press reported that at least 500,000 women had turned out for the Women's March on National Mall at 9.40am – more than double the initial predictions.
Around the same time, the Detroit Institute of Arts, thought by some to be on the brink of collapse, was helped by a van Gogh show that brought in $2 million in gift shop receipts alone, double the initial estimate.
According to the latest estimates, 770,000 terabequerels – about 20% as much as the official estimate for Chernobyl – of radiation seeped from the plant in the week after the tsunami, more than double the initial estimate of 370,000.
Last year, Apple secured a record 2m pre-orders for the iPhone 5 worldwide within 24 hours of the handset coming to market, more than double the initial 1m requests for the 4S.
Air passenger duty (APD) preloaded "cheap" tickets with a £10 surcharge, often doubling the initial cost of a ticket.
The evacuation order for the Rockaways more than doubled the initial number of nursing homes to be emptied.
That indictment replaced a criminal complaint filed by federal prosecutors in May and doubled the initial loss estimate to nearly $60 million.
On top of that, Energy Transfer's latest deal with management doubled the initial breakup fee to $212.5 million, or an extra cost to Williams of around $1.70 per Southern Union share.
To build a future reserve, the New Dealers doubled the initial level of the payroll tax to 2percentt, applied up to a cap that was initially set at $3,000 of income.
