Sentence examples for has recently doubled from inspiring English sources

Santiago has a modern metro, which has recently doubled in size, to four lines, at a cost of $1.3 billion.

Iran has recently doubled the rate at which it hangs people for narcotics violations and these are, overwhelmingly, small-time mules.

Until then, if a passenger requests a paper ticket when an e-ticket is available, there is a fee, which has recently doubled to $20.

For a century it steadily returned to about $16 a barrel in today's currency, then in 1974 the mean shifted to about $35, and Grantham believes it has recently doubled again.

So when he got to California this week, he saw major political opportunity in the skyrocketing cost of electricity, which has recently doubled and even quadrupled in some places following price deregulation by the state.

The biggest is 116-year-old power utility CESC, which has 2.9 million customers in eastern India and has recently doubled capacity to 2,500 megawatts.

In the United States, we have recently doubled our renewable energy from clean sources like wind and solar power.

The second leader is Jennifer, a leader in operations with a team that had recently doubled in size after an acquisition.

"But we are far from complacent and have recently doubled the investment in housing to support the largest housing programme by any government since the 1970s.

Estate agents in Lima, its capital city, say that homes in the swishest seaside neighbourhoods have recently doubled in value and that the cost of building plots has trebled.

A report in January by the nonprofit journalism organization ProPublica, for example, noted that the Environmental Protection Agency had recently doubled its estimates for the amount of methane that is vented or lost from natural gas distribution lines.