Air passenger duty (APD) preloaded "cheap" tickets with a £10 surcharge, often doubling the initial cost of a ticket.
Part of the reason he talks back so much (nearly doubling the initial length of his speech, in this case) is that he likes the sound of his own voice.
The Keystone XL project would expand an existing pipeline from the vast tar sands of Alberta to refineries in the US Midwest, nearly doubling the initial capacity and transporting crude oil deeper into America to refineries on the Gulf coast of Texas.
The evacuation order for the Rockaways more than doubled the initial number of nursing homes to be emptied.
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.
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.
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.
William C. Thompson Jr., the New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, said on Tuesday that officials in the city's Department of Environmental Protection "misled the public" about a Bronx water filtration plant that is expected to cost more than double the initial estimate.
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.
