ninefold
IPA: nˈɪnfoʊɫd
adjective
- Having nine times as much or as many.
- Having nine parts.
adverb
- By a factor of nine.
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Examples of "ninefold" in Sentences
- This is expected to grow more than ninefold in the next decade, the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation predicts.
- One block trade of 50 contracts that cost $5,000 Monday surged to $45,000 Friday, a ninefold profit in four days.
- Fangda Special Steel Technology rose 5.4% after the company said it expects a ninefold rise in net profit for 2010.
- Last year Americans spent 2.3 trillion minutes chatting on cellphones, according to the U.S. wireless trade association CTIA — a ninefold increase since 2000.
- The University of Texas at San Antonio study predicted that, by 2020, the oil field will support 68,000 jobs, and its economic output will increase nearly ninefold.
- Noninterest income doubled to S$700 million, mostly due to a ninefold increase in trading and investment income to S$295 million on the gains made on selling investment securities.
- At the end of April 2011, yuan deposits in the Hong Kong banking system had risen to 511 billion, or $79 billion, up roughly ninefold from July 2009 when the settlement program was launched.
- In 60 years, the total population of San Francisco stayed roughly the same, but the average house price rose ninefold, from $60,162 to nearly $550,000 (compared with Cincinnati, where the average house price increased from $65,000 to $145,000).
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