adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a threefold/fourfold/fivefold etc increase (= an increase by three, four etc times )
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The figures show a threefold increase in incidents of car theft.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
increase
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The fourfold increase in less than two years will be dwarfed if projections for the future are accurate.
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These protective effects of calcium are not inhibited by a fourfold increase in dietary phosphate.