0 three times as big or as much:
a threefold increase
a threefold classification
1 by three times:
Prices have risen threefold.
The purpose of the current study was threefold.
Here the author offers a threefold explanation for incorporating this specific drawing into his manuscript.
Suspensions of lower spore concentrations were prepared by threefold dilutions.
The estimated sensitivity of the mandatory notification system increased threefold, from 10 % in 1995 to 33 % in 1998.
A threefold strategy for national water quantity management was designed: retain, salvage, and drain.
The threefold nature of man, therefore, made education imperative.
To summarize, the strengths of this study are threefold.
Reasons are threefold: these countries have large and ailing pay-as-you-go public pension systems, relatively thin capital markets and less than benchmark capital performance.