Health spending per private sector worker, in contrast, multiplied 11-fold during the same period.
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While only a few hundred participants were taking estrogen plus testosterone, that number increased eight-fold over the 10-year study period.
For example, in the past 5 years alone, patent filings from the PRC have increased five-fold compared with the previous 5 year period.
It corresponded to an estimated five-fold increase in trampoline sales during the same period.
Over that period, meat consumption in developing countries rose five-fold, three times as fast as in developed countries.
Since Huang took the company public in 1999, Nvidia's shares have risen 21-fold, edging out even the mighty Apple over the same time period.
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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Open Innovation is a real force multiplier for AFRL. By opening this challenge up to the world through Innocentive, we were able to multiply the number of people thinking about this problem over 100-fold, and received a workable solution within a 60-day period.
The CPI might go up 125% in one decade (as it did 1971-1981), the dollar could permanently lose 66% against major currencies (as it did against the yen in this period), and commodities could shoot up ten-to twenty-five fold (as was the case with oil and gold).
Productivity has risen seven-fold from 1.12 tons of tin per employee to 7.9 tons over the same period.
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