The phrase "has virtually doubled" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that something has increased by almost double its original amount. Example: "Over the past year, the company's profits have virtually doubled thanks to their successful marketing campaign." Alternatives and variants of this phrase could include: - "has nearly doubled" - "has almost doubled" - "has practically doubled" - "has more than doubled" - "has nearly doubled in size" - "has essentially doubled".
The exciting climb across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge has virtually doubled in price.
Since March , 2009 when it hit a bottom, the stock market has virtually doubled in value.
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.
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.
So allow me to brighten your day with this fact: the cost of police pensions to the taxpayer has virtually doubled in real terms since Stephen Lawrence was killed in 1993.
Meanwhile, the short view column by James Mackintosh looks at the Chinese market, which has virtually doubled over the last year; half of the stocks on the Shenzhen exchange trade on a prospective price-earnings ratio of more than 50.
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.
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.
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.
