Exempel på fivefold

• Patients with diabetes have a fivefold increased risk of developing cataracts119 and 11% all of cataract surgery is performed on diabetic patients,20 of whom 4% have evidence of retinopathy.

• Sucrose concentration was fivefold higher than in the control treatment, while concentrations of raffinose, stachyose and reducing sugars (data not shown) were not significantly different from the control.

• Since the 1950s, world production of meat has increased more than fivefold.

• The cut presumed a fivefold increase in private sector contributions to training.

• We have increased the winter fuel allowance fivefold, to £100, for every pensioner household, starting this winter.

• Between 1989 and 1991, there was an almost fivefold increase—to 75,000—in the number of repossessions.

• Last year the fivefold increase in the cost of oil was one of the major causes of inflation.

• In the steel industry it has increased fivefold.

• Far from their work diminishing, it will multiply, perhaps fivefold with all the developments in industry.

• The numbers caught in the poverty trap have increased fivefold since 1979.

• Within 30 years the population had grown fivefold to over 57,000.

• The amount of paper collected increased fivefold after the introduction of doorstep collection.

• The heat survey bookings have increased fivefold in the last five months, and a publicity campaign is about to be launched.

• Between 1959 and 1975, world trade expanded fivefold and the world economy doubled in size.

• After all, given that we are faced with a fivefold increase in fines for drugs possession, we must recognise that present sentences are not enough.