9 sentences with “doubled”

The war nearly doubled Britain's national debt from £75 million in 1756 to £133 million in 1763.

With hydroponics, crops can be doubled, yields can be increased, space can be reduced and diseases can be avoided.

In the early 1920s there were more than 5,000 black employees at Ford, and by 1926 their number had doubled: they constituted ten percent of its entire workforce.

Real wages rose in Britain by 80% from 1950 to 1970, French industrial production doubled between 1938 and 1959, and West German exports grew by 600% in one decade: the 1950s.

In Europe, sugar consumption doubled every 25 years during this period, and it was ultimately the profits from sugar that helped finance the growth of British power in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Thus, monarchs granted monopolies on products and then taxed them, and frequently sold titles of nobility and state offices to the highest bidder (the Queen of Sweden doubled the number of noble families in ten years).

The following year, production more than doubled, and the number of workers also doubled. But when production almost doubled again in the period from 1913 to 1914, the factory no longer increased the number of its workers.

Friedrich Wilhelm I more than doubled the size of the Prussian army (from 30,000 to 83,000, making it the fourth largest in Europe), lived modestly in a few rooms in the palace, wore his officer's uniform everywhere and occasionally knocked the teeth out of judges whose rulings he disagreed with.

The most important of these was Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619 - 1683), who doubled royal revenues by reducing the tax collectors' cut (only a quarter of revenues reached the royal coffers; in some cases he achieved as much as 80%), increasing tariffs on foreign trade going to France, and greatly increasing France's commercial interests abroad.