As a result, total federal and state Medicaid spending has quintupled over the past 20 years.

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Mini-mills have been doing well: their share of the market has quintupled over the past 25 years.

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Insurance giant Munich Re recently reported that weather-related loss has quintupled in the United States in recent years.

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While the earth's occupancy has doubled in the past 100 years, overall water use has quintupled--largely due to the demands of manufacturing.

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Although his company has minuscule revenue and no earnings to date, the share price has quintupled since his initial public offering in October 2002.

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In just five years, the number of aesthetic procedures has quintupled.

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The stock has quintupled in the past year.

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Its stock has quintupled in the last decade.

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In Germany seed money has roughly quintupled in the past five years, says Hendrik Brandis of Earlybird Venture Capital, a venture-capital firm in Munich.

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