There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled. |
They are prolonged adolescents with trebled testosterone levels and pockets stuffed with too many C-notes. |
The former desert rat was being forced to give up his home help support after the weekly cost more than trebled. |
For instance, in certain winning positions called gammon and backgammon, the stake is doubled or trebled, respectively. |
The volume of wine produced may well have trebled to 900,000 hectolitres at the same time. |
Within two years the affected mines had recovered sufficiently to have doubled and, in some cases, trebled their profits. |