Sentence examples for pretty much doubling from inspiring English sources

It is Thierry Frémaux's seventh year completely in charge of the festival as "general delegate", and he has reinforced the mighty predominance of Cannes, not least with his shrewd development of its Un Certain Regard sidebar as a repository of movies that would well be headliners at rival festivals – thus pretty much doubling its selection prerogative.

The expanded vaults have arrived, pretty much doubling the amount of space you have for armor and weapons.

That shouldn't be a surprise, Cook has done a masterful job in Jobs' absence, pretty much doubling the value of the company's stock during that time.

"It pretty much doubled in the six months I followed it".

The cost of fuel has "pretty much doubled for us," said Mr. Pachter of Long Island Cares.

Explore the raw and you'll pretty much double your vegetable vocabulary.

"We are surrounded by water, we have a very fragile ecosystem, and our population pretty much doubles during the high season," said Anna Throne-Holst, the Southampton town supervisor.

He's in charge of a- an oil company that's pretty much double the size of his next serious competitor.

"We pretty much doubled everybody's workload to keep the traffic moving," said Charles Bartoldus, director of the Customs Service for the port as well as for Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Baltimore-Washington International Airport

Given that the cost of renting a home in Dubai has pretty much doubled over the past two years, this was cheered by most of the 1.2m population.On the surface, the move makes macroeconomic sense too.

Like so many American big cities, Pittsburgh has decided that the coarse, raw, grizzled urban textures of the industrial era can pretty much double the expense of your salmon entree.