Sentence examples for years to double from inspiring English sources

Labour took 13 years to double the national debt.

At that rate, he said, it would take him 6,932 years to double his money.

Instead of doubling every sixteen years, healthcare spending would take almost fifty years to double.

By contrast, the market took more than five years to double after it began to advance in late 1974.

During their industrial revolutions America and Britain took 50 years to double their real incomes per head; today China is achieving that in a single decade.

Now, we have £2m over five years to double the numbers of people [to 20,000] who are approved to become shared life carers".

Ronald Reagan's rollback of CAFE standards caused America, in that year, to double oil imports from the Persian Gulf nations and to burn more oil than is in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

As Amazon's Chief Evangelist for AWS Jeff Barr notes in a blog post today, it took Amazon six years to grow to get to 1 trillion stored objects, "and less than a year to double that number".

With 35 employees, Felix & Paul aims within the year to "double its size and triple its content," he said.

The agents were sentenced to unusually severe prison terms — ranging from fifteen years to double-life terms — in December , 2001 after a jury trial in South Florida found them guilty of espionage and other offenses.

The agents were sentenced to unusually severe prison terms ranging from fifteen years to double-life terms in December , 2001 after a jury trial in South Florida found them guilty of espionage and other offenses.