Sentence examples for is approaching double from inspiring English sources

"In a soft economy like we're experiencing, the difference in sales between the beginning of the pay period and the end of the pay period is approaching double digits," said Mr. Burd of Safeway.

"From what I saw and my colleagues saw across the country, I estimate that the department stores will be up 2 to 4percentt over last year -- and the discounters will be approaching double-digits, maybe 8 or 9percentt over last year," said Mike Green, a vice president for retail consulting at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

At the same time, Greece's budget deficit has ballooned to 12 percent of GDP, while its public debt to GDP ratio is approaching 120 percent, or double the Maastricht criteria.

Now, ahead of Friday's 10th anniversary of the girls' bodies being found, one of the key recommendations of the Bichard Inquiry that followed the double murder is approaching a major landmark.

The amount he has donated is approaching $1 million, which would more than double should he win the $1.4 million first-place check Sunday.

It's unclear who will ultimately be responsible for the cost overruns that one insider says are approaching $1 billion, double the original price of construction.

It is approached via a driveway with double iron gates, surrounded by mature gardens and a barn, with scope for further development.

The accident occurred on Monday afternoon, on the Brahmaputra River, as the double-decker ferry was approaching shore near Buraburi, in the state of Assam.

From the methodological point of view and in the framework of nonparametric frontier analysis, the proposed future research can be approached either by double bootstrap semi-parametric approaches (Simar & Wilson 2007) or by the more flexible conditional directional distance functions (Simar & Vanhems 2012; Daraio & Simar 2014).

Since 6 restrained rats should be exposed simultaneously, the spherical waveguide was approached by a double-cone waveguide, consisting of an inner and an outer cone of hexagonal bases, with a coaxial feed at the tip and with the exposure field leaking from the open end at the bottom (Fig. 1A).

The possibility that some of the hTRPC3 concentrates in the Golgi stack was approached initially by conducting double labelling with hTRPC3 and a marker for the cis-Golgi, Gpp130 [ 30].