It mattered little that, for example, gold (up 23-fold in these years) promised no income stream.
Chicken prices have risen three-fold in the past year, barbari bread a five fold increase.
Peugeot saw operating profits grow seven-fold in the first half of 1998 to FFr4.5 billion.
Visually, HD graphics bring Nintendo back to the fold in the three-horse race with Sony and Microsoft.
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Total capacity sold annually could grow fifty-fold in five years, he adds, from 200 to 10, 000 petabytes.
The price tag for treating patients has increased 500-fold in the last decade.
But the likes of Istanbul, Dubai and Qatar saw their passenger traffic jump four and five-fold in that time.
Their numbers have swollen the population of Juarez six fold in recent years.
Time seemed to fold in on itself, and in an instant I found myself aboard my first flight to London.
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He said the shipment volume of ultrabooks (PCs less than 1 inch thick) grew 18 fold in U.S. last year.
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Tokyo's star performers are firms such as Hikari Tsushin, a mobile-phone retailer whose shares have risen 70-fold in four years.
Technology and infrastructure expansion have led to bandwidth prices at record lows too, down over three-fold in the past five years.
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It can fold in on itself to become a completely sealed concrete block, preventing any of the undead from getting in.
Its shares, the most expensive on the Swedish bourse, have risen four-fold in the past two years, easily outstripping the index.
And true enough, earnings are up more than three-fold in a decade.
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Money spent on rehabilitation pays off multiple fold in distant fiscal years.
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Imagine instead an iPad that you can fold in your pocket, recharge almost never and hold with one hand without wrist strain.
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Revenues have grown 11-fold in the past year, according to Islam.
They predict that if the CFTC clarified their legal status, the volume traded would increase more than 20-fold in the first year.
The number of adoptions has fallen six-fold in the last 30 years.
They said they hoped he would help bring Catholics who have turned to newer Pentecostal Churches back to the fold in Latin America.
Fold in warm, entertaining service, sophisticated libations, an elegant space and big city mojo and you have the makings of a perfect meal.
Ultra-Orthodox conscription rates have increased seven-fold in the past four years.
In American cities, they have risen four-fold in recent years.
They would bring the legislation back at an "appropriate" time, he said, when they could fold in Democratic concerns about labor and environmental standards overseas and carry the day.
Another study showed that the arrest rate of mentally ill people rose five-fold in the first eight years after the rules tightened about whom was allowed into mental hospitals.
But from the standpoint of sustainability, ten-fold growth in Medicare would be easily manageable if we expected a ten-fold growth in aggregate inflation-adjusted worker earnings during the same period.
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Better spatial visualization is a must for dozens of professions: surgeons training for arthroscopic procedures, drug researchers modeling how complex proteins fold in upon themselves, petroleum geologists mapping miles-deep oilfields.
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