adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
increase
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The result was a more than twofold increase in the rate of locomotive production.
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These show since 1939 a more than twofold increase in arable land and a corresponding decline in permanent pasture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a twofold increase in the genetic mutations
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My reasons for leaving are twofold .
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The answer to the question is twofold .
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The last ten years have seen a twofold increase in the numbers of deaths on the road.
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This new legislation will have a twofold effect on businesses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because of the number of peaks, the structured form must contain a twofold symmetry if duplex, or fourfold if tetraplex.
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The answers would seem to be twofold .
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The government has a twofold task.
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The mechanism of the hypercalcemia in vitamin D intoxication is twofold .
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The principal findings of the Implications Team, concurred in by the 350 members of the plenary, were twofold .
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The subject is essentially twofold - beach and palm trees, so thought must be given to each.
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This difference, while twofold , is not statistically significant.
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Thus the act in a twofold sense is repugnant to the Constitution.