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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It blamed the rise in fuel prices on the threefold increase in fuel consumption in the first half of the year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop, presbyter, and deacon.
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It has a threefold purpose: Spirituality, Apostolate and Friendship.
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Our threefold classification of participant, subject, and parochial is only the beginning of a classification of political cultures.
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The threefold model of church growth of cell, congregation and celebration works at Ichthus to great effect.
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The catastrophe they inflict is threefold .
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The controversies that have since arisen are of threefold origin.
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This threefold classification of political cultures does not assume that one orientation replaces the others.
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We gained a threefold improvement in accuracy and almost a fivefold improvement in required off-line training time.