Sentence examples for had virtually doubled from inspiring English sources
After the market closed Bear Stearns announced it had virtually doubled its holding to 3.22% Finally mining group Kimberley Diamond was wanted.
Within 10 years, automobile efficiency had virtually doubled, to 27.5 miles per gallon in 1985 from just over 14 miles per gallon in 1976.
Organized labour had virtually doubled in size during the war, and the unions were ready and willing to demonstrate their new strength by staging major auto, steel, and transportation strikes.
A decade later, the population had virtually doubled to 30,325, after the construction of the 67.5-mile-long 67.5-mile-long 67.5-mile-longght-lane beltway that starts at the OuterbrInterstateing and loops through central, western and northern New Jersey, connecting up with the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike and many other large highways.
Their $15 million payroll was lowest in the major leagues last year, but four months after Loria became chairman and chief executive officer, the payroll has virtually doubled.
Since entering the government as the junior partner in May, the League has virtually doubled its approval ratings to 36% and is Italy's dominant force, eclipsing M5S.
"Britain has virtually doubled its capacity in the last year, with 80,000 more installations, including several thousand larger scale commercial ones," said Ray Noble, a consultant at the UK National Solar Centre.
Support for interracial dating has virtually doubled since 1987; discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS has become socially unacceptable; tolerance for gays in public life has risen by half though gay marriage is still seen as a totally different matter.
In San Francisco, house prices have risen by seventy-five per cent in the past five years; in Boston, they have virtually doubled; on Long Island, they have increased by about eighty per cent.
