Despite a doubling of its gross domestic product in the past five years, Sri Lanka still requires foreign aid and loans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Farmlink works with 125 local farmers with the aim of doubling pepper production over the next five years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Today 18 million tourists visit Venice every year, but in 20 years this number risks doubling.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and central Europe have become NATO members, almost doubling the alliance's number of countries from 15 to 28.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

European skepticism about the vaccine comes as the Stockholm-based European Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports the number of deaths in Europe due to the H1N1 virus has been doubling every two weeks since mid-October.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Shortly afterward, officials made public that the support troops would number up to 13,000, bringing the overall total to 68,000 by the end of the year a doubling of the deployment from when he took office.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The general has not made a specific troop request, but experts say he could ask for as many as 40,000,maybe more, on top of the doubling of U.S.troop strength to 68,000 in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22