The production of opium poppy has more than tripled since 1985.

Over the past 40 years, the population has tripled.

And over the next 18 years have almost tripled.

Czech development assistance has more than doubled, and it will continue to grow.

They rose to over 18,000 in October, bringing the number of returnees so far in 2005 to more than 60,000.

After tripling between 1985 and 1990, seizures of ATS has tripled again during the 1990s.

European heroin seizures increased fivefold during that period, while global estimated opium production increased only around threefold.

The participation of minorities in State administration has followed a positive trend, more than tripling in the last seven years.

The number of women in local representative bodies has grown by more than twofold.

Annual cocaine seizures in Europe more than tripled, from 7 tonnes in 1989 to 21.7 in 1995.

The IUD was the modern method most frequently used by married women (13 per cent), followed by sterilization (8 per cent), the use of the first method having tripled, and of the second, doubled, in comparison with 1981.

Cocaine seizures in the producer countries also sharply increased by almost tenfold in the case of Peru, and fourfold in the case of Colombia.

The number of States parties to treaties has tripled over the past decade.

The population of the world will double before long.

The number of migrants per year tripled during this period, primarily among men (increasing from 33 to 132), although it also increased significantly among women (from 34 to 84).

The number of individual complaints received has more than tripled in the past five years (from fewer than 1,000 complaints in 1997 to more than 3,500 in 2001 and over 5,000 in 2004).

In 1993, the world s top 10 seaports handled well over 33 million commercial container vessels, over 200 per cent more than a decade earlier.

In the last century, the world got richer its population quadrupled the number of people living in cities grew thirteen fold and we consumed more of everything. Water consumption rose nine fold and energy use thirteen fold.

The number of persons aged 60 years and over increased more than threefold in 50 years, from 96 million in 1950 to 326 million in 2000, representing 10 per cent of the population.

They aim to triple that figure by 2010.

It took us three years to double our price performance of computing in 1900, two years in the middle we're now doubling it every one year.

And all this at a time when the population has doubled.

Whereas the personal income, on a scale that has been held constant to accommodate for inflation, has more than doubled, almost tripled, in that period.

Asian energy imports more than tripled between 1985 and 1997, reaching 13 percent of world energy imports.

The number of officials doubled last year.

Flows to Chile doubled.

He added new linear motion guides to the pistons, he added a condenser to cool the steam outside the cylinder, he made the engine double acting so it had double the power.

A significant increase in the incidence of epidemic parotitis was also registered in 2001  an increase of 3.5 times over the level in 2000.

Tom doubled his investment in a year.

In the manufacturing sector the respective figures are 14 for FDI from developing countries and 2.5 for FDI from developed countries (WIR04).

Unpaid assessments for the two tribunals doubled between 2002 and 2003, to almost 88 million.

The deficit in regular budget cash had multiplied tenfold.

The momentous move toward fossil fuels has done a lot of good. Compared to 250 years ago, the average person in the United Kingdom today has access to 50 times more power, travels 250 times farther, and has 37,500 times more light.

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Rice is highly valuable to the households at a time when rice prices in the markets have tripled in the last two months, from 240 won kg (USD 1.50) to more than 700 won kg (USD 4.30).

This is a significant increase from 14 per cent in 1995 and almost double the international average of 15.7 per cent.

The latest available figures (2005) indicate that its share has more than doubled since 2000.

More and more women, two, three, four times more women, dying of heart disease than men.

Agency execution will also increase from 7.89 million to 12.13 million, while UNDCP execution will also increase significantly, tripling from 2.47 million to 7.56 million.

This was an India that was adding more mobile phones per month than New Zealand's population twice over.

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Non core resources more than doubled, while core resources grew at a much slower pace.

The number of individual complaints received has more than tripled in the past five years, from fewer than 1,000 complaints in 1997 to more than 3,500 in 2001 and over 5,000 in 2004.

And twice that much here. Yankee dollars.

The taxes on them will be doubled.