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  • This appears to be a reasonable choice for the threefold channel, which is formed by wide vestibules and has only a short neck region.
  • That is almost a threefold increase. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stock in the FTSE 250 maker of telecoms testing equipment has risen nearly threefold in the space of a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • He also increased the foundation's endowment nearly threefold, to roughly $6 billion.
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  • Police officers face a crackdown on second jobs after a threefold increase in the numbers taking on extra work in their spare time. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was common ground that the foreseeability element of the threefold test was satisfied. Times, Sunday Times
  • Visits to Amnesty's US website reportedly increased sixfold, donations threefold and the rate of new memberships twofold.
  • Paganism: If you send shit out into the world, it will return to you threefold.
  • While I'm on the point, my book consumption has increased threefold.
  • The dangers of fiddling further with tax relief like this are threefold. Times, Sunday Times
  • From a literary perspective, the book is an artistic masterpiece, constructed in two parts (1: 1 – 7: 32, 8: 1 – 16: 25), with each internally ordered by a threefold chiastic pattern. Judith: Apocrypha.
  • As indicated by the shaded areas in the figure, the cavity is connected to outside through two types of channels having threefold and fourfold symmetries.
  • One survey revealed a threefold increasein breast cancer.
  • A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.
  • 'On account of the threefoldness of devout meditation.' The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
  • Emergency surgery is associated with a threefold increase in morbidity and mortality.
  • So even if we do go up threefold this year, we're only talking about 18,000 people.
  • The number of young people claiming jobseeker's allowance for six months has risen more than threefold. Times, Sunday Times
  • Totally apprehensively are unconcealed that ultrasound one forgetfully gravitative, but pardonably wind chintzily be at incompatibly hispanic to incandescent apomict of threefold skateboard okay curtilage. Rational Review
  • Lyell's visits to France and Italy led him to propose a threefold stratigraphical division of the Tertiary rocks there on the basis of the proportion of recent to extinct species of mollusc present.
  • In recent years, statistics suggest, hospital discharge rates have increased threefold and mortality has increased nearly 30 per cent.
  • It is quite plausible to think that the first five agential operators satisfy the conditions of the traditional square and the traditional threefold classification scheme: Deontic Logic
  • They have been documented to filter 53 tons of seston per hour in the Szczecin Gulf (Poland) and reduce the concentration of seston 2. 3-6.9 times in Narochanskie lake system (Belarus) and threefold in Lukomskoe Lake (Belarus) PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Gln gene, already associated to AD in early studies, was about threefold more represented in AD patients than in controls (2.0% vs 0.8%; p   =   0.031), and it might account for the increased frequency of H5 in AD patients (4.2% vs 2.3%). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The underlying analogy is threefold: to consume wine or to abstain from its consumption is to welcome into or exclude from the body politic an outcast which is also to grant or deny representation within a symbolic order. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
  • The value of shares traded between investors, the so-called secondary market, rose threefold last year, to $2.5 billion.
  • Now, God manifested himself to the human race from the beginning under the threefold relation of Creator, Legislator, and Savior, and from the beginning, from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Abraham, from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus Christ, there have been men who lived conformably with this idea of God. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Given that the rate of multiple births has risen by 1000 in the past decade, with a threefold increase in triplets alone, any woman contemplating pregnancy may appreciate the existence of their national support network.
  • Gln gene, already associated to AD in early studies, was about threefold more represented in AD patients than in controls (2.0% vs 0.8%; p = 0.031), and it might account for the increased frequency of H5 in AD patients (4.2% vs 2.3%). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.
  • The precept is threefold, ask, seek, knock; there is precept upon precept; but the promise is sixfold, line upon line, for our encouragement; because a firm belief of the promise would make us cheerful and constant in our obedience. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • This "unspeakable word" of the Sages of the school of Alexandria, this word, which the Hebrew Kabalists wrote יהוה [IHUH], and translated by אראריהא, [ARARITA,] so expressing the threefoldness of the Secondary Principle, the dualism of the middle ones, and the Unity as well of the first Principle as of the end; and also the junction of the number 3 with the number 4 in a word composed of four letters, but formed of seven by one triplicate and two repeated, -- this word is pronounced _Ararita_. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • The prices of most commodities have risen between threefold and tenfold in the past five years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Firstly, there is a threefold apostolic testimony.
  • One survey revealed a threefold increasein breast cancer.
  • He pointed out that in the last seven years there has been a threefold increase in the number of people caught for drink driving.
  • What is rapturously sung in the threefold invocation of the seraphs is the infinite exaltation of Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
  • The causes of the decline are threefold. Times, Sunday Times
  • The causes of the decline are threefold. Times, Sunday Times
  • This preparation of the subject, which raises him up to the revealed object and tunes him to it, is for the individual person the disposition we could call the threefold unity of faith, hope, and love, a disposition that must already be present at least in an inchoative way in the very first genuine encounter. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog
  • Well before 1914, Britain's geostrategy was threefold: F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part I
  • And as culture is a threefold devotion to beauty, goodness, and truth, so the term civilization expresses the same threefold religion, shown on a larger scale in the characters, institutions, and customs of nations. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • Fatalities from ovarian cancer have increased threefold in the past 40 years.
  • Attendance numbers at the Portrait Gallery increased threefold during his eight-year tenure, reaching just under 1,500,000 in 2001.
  • Steiner's concept of a triformed, or threefold society in which the economic, cultural and political spheres would enjoy relative autonomy within the social organism has not yet been tried.
  • The tripod stand should be of the so-called threefold variety, with sliding legs which can be adapted to broken ground. How to Observe in Archaeology
  • A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
  • In China, eBay EachNet added 2.3 million new users, more than any market outside the United States, to reach a total of 20.3 million users. eBay India surpassed the 2 million user mark and listings jumped threefold from the year-ago quarter. Archive 2006-04-01
  • “We could increase yields in sub-Saharan Africa threefold tomorrow with off-the-shelf technology,” says Kenneth Cassman, a well-regarded agronomist who researches potential yields. The Next Breadbasket?
  • The burrs were ripe, and had just begun to divide, not "threefold," but fourfold, "to show the fruit within. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • The junk email I am getting has increased threefold over the last week or so.
  • In the Roman office the threefold division of Matins was re-introduced even after the vigil service had split into Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, and the divisions came to be known as nightwatches or nocturns.
  • If there is a problem, what has driven a threefold increase in costs in just three years?
  • As we have pointed out, this blessing threefold a blessing of grace, love, and fellowship.
  • Popular stomach acid reducer ups patients 'risk of developing pneumonia threefold WASHINGTON - Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have found that a popular stomach-acid reducer, which is used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients who need breathing machine support, triples the likelihood of contracting pneumonia among such patients. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Thus the second - lowest energy level of the particle in a cube is threefold degenerate.
  • According to the study of 2.3 million births, mothers who suffer excessive nausea and vomiting in pregnancy - known as hyperemesis gravidarum - are at a threefold higher rate of having the condition if their mums had it too, reports The BBC. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • For better consideration, we may distribute the aspects of Beauty a threefold manner.
  • (being mentioned); we say no, on account of the threefoldness of devout meditation (which would result from your interpretation); on account of The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
  • Turnover during the same period rose threefold, from £20.3 million in 1999 to £60.8 million for the nine months to December 2000.
  • The dangers of fiddling further with tax relief like this are threefold. Times, Sunday Times
  • This threefold classification of political cultures does not assume that one orientation replaces the others.
  • But, a final objection is raised, as on this view of the matter the elements -- earth, water and fire -- which are eaten and drunk, are already tripartite, each of them containing portions of all, and thus are of a threefold nature, how can they be designated each of them by a simple term -- _earth_, _water_, _fire_? The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
  • The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends using a nominal risk coefficient of 5% per sievert, which is increased threefold to account for the higher radiosensitivity of infants.
  • His neck ached still, but the pain was very dull and was exceeded threefold by his leg.
  • The controversies that have since arisen are of threefold origin.
  • No wonder the same three years have cut threefold the output of scientific, technical, medical and agricultural literature, reference books and cyclopaedias.
  • The highest Self is called by these different terms in order to teach threefoldness of devout meditation; viz. meditation on Brahman in itself as the cause of the entire world; on Brahman as having for its body the totality of enjoying (individual) souls; and on Brahman as having for its body the objects and means of enjoyment. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
  • Compared with unstimulated cells, luciferase activity was threefold higher after stimulation with sarcoid ELF.
  • His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism, with a threefold ministry of evangelists, pastors, and teachers.
  • Visits to the site have increased threefold since May.
  • Over the course of the twentieth century human population has increased more than threefold and gross world product perhaps twentyfold.
  • Chittamatra, or Mind-Only school, presents a threefold classification of reality as the imaginary, the dependent and the absolute.
  • At the beginning of each mission, there's a narrative that outlines the background to the impending scenario, in addition to the objectives that must be resolved, the latter of which may be twofold or threefold in nature.
  • In some areas of the world, rates of obesity have risen threefold or more since 1980.
  • Then He has shown us what we shall see, that is, the threefold coming. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
  • An imperfect right of property was at length communicated to sons; and the threefold distinction of _profectitious_, _adventitious_, and _professional_ was ascertained by the jurisprudence of the Code and Pandects. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
  • The number of Caesarean sections has increased threefold in Britain over the last 25 years with one in five babies now born by the method, according to Department of Health figures.
  • This cavity is connected to outside through channels with threefold and fourfold symmetry that are thought to provide permeation pathways for iron ions and protons, essential for proper functioning of ferritin as an iron depository.
  • The Minotaur Stamnos was exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1980, and published in 1977 by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, who highlighted the singularity of this particular vase in that 'the three protagonists are placed in such a way that, on turning the stamnos around, only one figure is visible at a time: a threefold grouping made possible through the absence of the handles and which is therefore rare, if not unique'. Home | The New York Observer
  • And this is threefold; integer, fracted, and surd: An Integer is what is measured by Unity, a Fraction, that which a submultiple Part of Unity measures, and a Surd, to which Unity is incommensurable” (Universal Arithme - tick, London [1728], p. 2). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Taxes were low from 1600 to 1630, when the French peasant economy prospered, and then increased threefold in real terms under Richelieu and Mazarin from 1630 to 1660, when northern France was gripped by agrarian crises.
  • A pound of cotton cost more than $2 for the first time, almost a threefold rise in six months. Times, Sunday Times
  • The law of threefold return was introduced in the Wiccan rede, developed ostensibly by Gardner and Valiente IIRC, and likely ghostwritten by Crowley.
  • An imperfect right of property was at length communicated to sons; and the threefold distinction of _profectitious_, _adventitious_, and _professional_ was ascertained by the jurisprudence of the _Code_ and _Pandects_. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
  • Our minds cannot help passing from the contemplation of the threefold character of GOD'S self-revelation to the thought of a certain threefoldness in Religious Reality
  • The burs were ripe, and had just begun to divide, not "threefold," but fourfold, "to show the fruit within. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
  • our rent increased threefold in the past five years
  • Fashion retailer Next was on everybody's buy list as it boosted taxable profits threefold.
  • Their use of visual data surpasses newspapers threefold.
  • Over the course of the twentieth century human population has increased more than threefold and gross world product perhaps twentyfold.
  • There will be a threefold increase in the number of cases booked from now till the year end, if we look at the number of cases booked till now.
  • Since 1950, the global population has swelled almost threefold. Times, Sunday Times
  • Teeth-whitening is all the rage - increasing threefold over the past few years - for those who want a winning smile.
  • There are plans to increase investment in green energy threefold.
  • Philip built up the army numbers: in the course of his reign the number of infantry available to him was increased threefold from 10,000 to 30,000, the number of cavalry more than sixfold, from 600 to 4,000.
  • Bowing of synovial kinesthetic geraniales can aegospotamos to virucidal susian to the threefold pussley quicklime. Rational Review
  • Well the literature's full of studies of this, which show that there's a twofold to threefold increase risk of prostate cancer if you have a first degree relative, your dad, your brother or your child, your son has it.
  • An imperfect right of property was at length communicated to sons; and the threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained by the jurisprudence of the Code and Pandects. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • In 1999 we treated the western end of Fairburn Ings with barley straw and numbers of wildfowl have increased threefold since that time.
  • There's been a threefold increase in the number of overseas students since Melbourne University's study of first year students began about 10 years ago.
  • A maximum threefold rise may seem harsh but it isn't grossly unfair. Times, Sunday Times
  • So that even in this most advanced sectarian literature there is no real threefoldness of the The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
  • With a massive expansion in Tramore's population and with a threefold increase in water activity in recent years, demands on the rescue service are becoming more frequent.
  • During 2002 there was a threefold increase in the number of airlines whose planes consistently stayed on ‘noise preferred routes’ during take-off.
  • This growth is mirrored in the company's workforce, with staff numbers increasing almost threefold in recent years, from 90 employees in 2003 to over 300 at present.
  • Police officers face a crackdown on second jobs after a threefold increase in the numbers taking on extra work in their spare time. Times, Sunday Times
  • One might almost imagine that their threefoldness was causative of a trinitarian identification with a supreme triad; but no, for still higher is the 'heaven of The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
  • The figures suggest there's been a threefold rise in the number of people admitted to accident and emergency units following the government's relaxation of the licensing laws. Times, Sunday Times
  • This February the visitor tally is nigh seven thousand, a more than threefold increase of which I'm mighty proud.
  • Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • People exposed over a 25-year period to ziram have about a threefold increased risk of developing Parkinson's," said Jeff Bronstein, professor of neurology and head of the Movement Disorder Center at the University of California at Los Angeles. Home
  • The sexual selection process, along with the survival benefits of intelligence, has resulted in a threefold increase in human brain volume in just 2.5 million years, say the scientists.
  • I have already drawn attention to Kant's important threefold division of the subject matter of speculative metaphysics.
  • The number of fines has risen almost threefold in three years. Times, Sunday Times
  • All this argumentation, we reply, is wrong, 'on account of the threefoldness of devout meditation.' The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
  • Most diabetes suffers are waiting 17 months to see a specialist and there has been a threefold increase in the number of patients referred to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin in the past seven years.
  • It is in relation to the threefold parental authorities that we can best understand Min's metamorphosis from a child-adult to a confused adolescent and then, unfortunately, to an unthinking adult-child.
  • To a person therefore belongs a threefold incommunicability, expressed in notes (b), (c), and (d). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • This shows an almost threefold increase in a certain childhood leukaemia.
  • Patients who consumed eight ounces daily of yogurt containing Lactobacillus acidophilus had a threefold decrease in infections and candidal colonization, compared with those on a yogurt-free diet, as reported by Dr. Eileen Hilton in 1992 in Annals of Internal Medicine. The Best Alternative Medicine
  • The nation has reduced alcohol consumption threefold in this century.
  • a threefold increase
  • XXXIII, c. xxvii; cf. also Cassian, "Coll,", IX, XV) there may be observed traces of the threefold degree which was afterwards systematically developed by Dionysius the Areopagite. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • An imperfect right of property was at length communicated to sons; and the threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained by the jurisprudence of the Code and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Transgenic animals had more than threefold the activity levels of those observed in wild-type littermates, as in the 7-day exposed newborns.
  • The _willow_ accommodates the bees in a kind of threefold succession; from the flowers they obtain both honey and farina; -- from the bark propolis; -- and the leaves frequently afford them honey-dew at a time when other resources are beginning to fail. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
  • One survey revealed a threefold increasein breast cancer.
  • Students at the college are furious that they face a threefold increase in their course fee.
  • There runs through the most of these exhortations an arrangement in triplets -- three sister Graces linked together hand-in-hand as it were -- and my text presents an example of that threefoldness in grouping. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
  • EDCCC chair Euodias Goza said he is hopeful that the job creation will "trickle down" throughout the county for a "threefold" benefit for Scroll and the county's retail and tourism industry. Arkadelphia Siftings Herald Homepage RSS
  • More interesting still was that contactless payments had risen more than threefold between 2014 and last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Transgenic animals had more than threefold the activity levels of those observed in wild-type littermates, as in the 7-day exposed newborns.
  • This is the traditional, threefold mystical way of purgation, illumination and union.
  • Electron density at the threefold and fivefold symmetry axes has been interpreted as calcium ions.
  • The number of alleged offences has risen almost threefold over the past four years. Times, Sunday Times
  • My mother, myself, and my two daughters represent the “chut hameshulash,” the threefold chain that cannot be broken, that chain of feminist thought and action which will extend to future generations until equity and justice for women become a Jewish religious norm. Belda Lindenbaum: Statement
  • Still, these figures do not include unreported deaths and ‘suicide equivalents’, which could easily increase these statistics threefold.
  • Biomass was twofold to fourfold and the production was threefold to sevenfold greater in subarctic than in subtropical regions.
  • But the family's weekly food bill has risen threefold in a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The total costs, including the financial costs, would be 846 million, a threefold increase in current terms on the price published in 1960, or the equivalent of two-thirds of the British motorway programme for 1973.
  • We found that residing in a high-risk neighborhood translated into nearly a threefold increase in the rate of psychological difficulties and over double the incidence of academic or behavioral problems at school.
  • From an estimated total of 181,000 in 1975, there was a threefold increase within five years according to published figures, to over 600,000 by 1980.
  • In terms of the threefold psychology defined in De occulta philosophia, reason (ratio) has cast its lot with the material and sensual part of the soul, idolum, and has turned away from the higher part of the soul, mens or intellect. Loss of Faith
  • At the beginning of each mission, there's a narrative that outlines the background to the impending scenario, in addition to the objectives that must be resolved, the latter of which may be twofold or threefold in nature.
  • The main dangers for the well-versed record critic are threefold.
  • It comes rather late in the day, considering the UK's airport capacity has barely expanded since the Second World War, despite a threefold increase in passenger numbers since 1980.
  • If it be said (that Brahman is not meant) on account of characteristic marks of the individual soul and the chief vital air; we say no, on account of the threefoldness of meditation; on account of The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
  • The years between 1990 and 2000 saw a threefold increase in the number of herders in Mongolia.
  • The threefold motion of the cylinders was retained, but the frisket frames were displaced, and tapes running over rollers and underneath the cylinders held the sheets against the impression surfaces. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • Although saline-filled implants have been the sole choice for women seeking cosmetic augmentation since 1992, the number of implant surgeries has reportedly increased threefold since then.
  • The paradigm which the Eucharist expresses can be usefully described, I think, in terms of a threefold succession of ideas: ecclesia, anaphora, and diaspora.

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