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The double income family was the standard.
Lexicographical has this great pattern: it's called a double dactyl.
And just by saying double dactyl, I've sent the geek needle all the way into the red.
I can master shock of "The Crying Game" with the awe of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know that it was his father who gave it to my mother, and that's a double entendre.
It does a little double dance, and then it heads back in exactly the same direction it went in the first place.
Other estimates put that number at roughly double that number of infections.
They took up the challenge, and Korea was able to double the proportion of students achieving excellence in one decade in the field of reading.
So it was one of those really superior double bluff kind of things that took place.
People don't realize how tough it is to write that kind of program that can read a "Jeopardy" clue in a natural language like English and understand all the double meanings, the puns, the red herrings, unpack the meaning of the clue.
Well, I guess we'll double check it when I come in.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to a very special friend of mine, one of the greatest double bassists I know.
And over the next few decades, as the world's population expands to 10 billion, this will need to nearly double to 100 billion animals.
The pituitary tumor, as it grows, often starts to compress the visual nerves in your brain, with the result that people with acromegaly have either double vision or they are profoundly nearsighted.
For the first time in history, most people live in cities, and the U.N. estimates that over the next 40 years, the population is going to double on the planet.
And we've decided in the next three years, we will double the volume of certified material we put through our business.
The population's going to double from one billion to two billion, so household incomes are going to go up sevenfold in the next 35 years.
In 2015, the LHC will almost double the energy of the colliding protons, and these more powerful collisions will allow us to explore further the particle world, and we will certainly learn much more.
So that in 1940, when ASCAP threatened to double their rates, the majority of broadcasters switched to BMI.
There were double pirate watches.
We'll double the impact in 2015, and we'll double it each of the following years after that.
Double standards for men and women, sex as a source of shame, family control limiting individual choices, and a vast gulf between appearance and reality: what people are doing and what they're willing to admit to, and a general reluctance to move beyond private whispers to a serious and sustained public discussion.
But if you're throwing it in the bin, and your local landfill facility is just a normal one, then we're having what's called a double negative.
With a passionate and committed team and the tremendous support of our partners, we grew dramatically, today, serving 20,000 small farmers, enabling them to double their yields and triple their net income relative to their peers.
So think of this: Instead of just being able to help Dorothy and four of her classmates to go through secondary school for a few years, I was able to double my contribution.
When you're a graduate of Harvard Business School as I am, you're some kind of double loser.
38,931; double that to get 77,862.
I was on academic and disciplinary probation before I hit double digits, and I first felt handcuffs on my wrists when I was 11 years old.
Du Bois, the famous activist, said it's this peculiar sensation that the Negro has to walk around being viewed through the lens of other people, and this two-ness, this double consciousness.
Did it more than double, did it remain about the same in the world as a whole, or did it decrease to less than half?
Did it almost double, did it remain more or less the same, or did it halve?
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