four-fold

How To Use four-fold In A Sentence

• Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
• An ongoing trial in Uganda shows that coverage rates have increased by from two-fold to four-fold.
• But for cattle and women lent [the return] is, their offspring: the highest encrease demandable for use of liquids [99] is eight-fold; for wearing apparel, for corn, and for gold, four-fold, three-fold and two-fold respectively. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
• Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
• The experiments indicate that a low-dose herbicide seed coating on resistant corn can increase yields up to four-fold in fields highly infested with witchweed.
• The figures tally with national averages, as a new report out today from the Department of Health reveals that Caesareans have increased four-fold in the last 25 years.
• In some patients, there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia.
• An ongoing trial in Uganda shows that coverage rates have increased by from two-fold to four-fold.
• To this end, the responsibilities of the nematologists are, in the very least, four-fold.
• There has been a four-fold increase in couples breaking up for these reasons in the last two years, amid increasing financial strain on families.