Sentence examples for doubled its population from inspiring English sources

Yet in the first half of the 18th century, it doubled its population and increased its wealth.

Given that it is next to the Banff and Kananaskis national parks, only an hour's drive from Calgary's international airport (flight time to London approximately nine hours) and in a temperate climate zone, it is no surprise that Canmore has doubled its population since it hosted the Winter Olympics in 1988.

In 1889, the family moved from Hancock, Michigan, to Milwaukee, which had practically doubled its population in a decade.

West Windsor, a community of 22,000 just outside Princeton, more than doubled its population between 1980 and 2000.

In the 1950s and 1960s it witnessed an extraordinary inflow of workers from the rest of Spain, which doubled its population.

It is the second-most-populous state after California, and the second-fastest-growing mega-state after Florida, having doubled its population since 1960.

"This continent now has 1 billion people, it will double its population in the next 50 years, so we will have 2 billion Africans.

The Indian capital, Delhi, became the world's second most populous city in 2014, more than doubling its population since 1990 to nearly 25 million.

For a transformed tumour cell to produce a tumour of about one billion cells (a mass that weighs about 1 gram [0.04 ounce], the size at which it becomes clinically detectable), the cell must double its population 30 times.

The city more than doubles its population each day when visitors descend on it.

Beihai, which already has 1.3 million inhabitants, is set to double its population in seven years.