0 five times as big or as much:
a fivefold classification
1 by five times:
Arrests have increased 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.
