Its value had trebled.

Sales tripled. Why?

Since then, their membership has multiplied.

Prices for many commodities have doubled over the past couple of years. Oil prices have risen almost 400 in the last five years.

Fungi multiplied. Orchids emerged, genitalia shaped to lure insects ...

Rates of gout have approximately doubled between 1990 and 2010.

During Berlusconi s tenure in office, his enormous personal assets have tripled.

As a result, the Grand Duchy of Moscow tripled in size under his rule.

The amount of nitrogen and sulfur circulating through the Earth system has doubled.

Now consider that mean wealth doubled in Redmond, Washington, as a result of Bill Gates success.

On YouTube, videos of soldiers coming home have multiplied over the past several years.

With the help of computers, the extras were multiplied to create a crowd of several hundred thousand people.

In the last 10 years, there has been a sevenfold increase in government mandated testing and certification requirements.

Since 2005, Bolivian exports have increased six fold, along with fiscal revenue.

After all, the dollar value of gold has nearly tripled since 2005.

They reminded us that the problems facing the world had multiplied, natural disasters being one of them.

Initially the task force consisted of only Alex, Lioba, Farah, Ali, and Janie and a few other members, but recently the group has been expanding.

But, when he declared a state of emergency on March 23, the number of protesters in the streets doubled.

Under the new five year plan, investments devoted to women and small enterprises had doubled compared to the previous plan.

Unemployment has nearly doubled in Tunisia and Egypt, and foreign direct investment has dried up across the Arab world.

For example, in January 1974, when the first world oil crisis began, oil prices doubled in just days.

Daily wages for laborers in Baghdad have doubled in the last three years hardly a sign of rising unemployment.

Two million educated professionals have recently emigrated from Russia. During the last 20 years, social inequality has grown threefold.

In hopes of stimulating FDI, bilateral agreements have multiplied, but they rarely lead to balanced commitments.

Since 2000, American assistance has nearly doubled, rising from 10 billion to 19 billion in 2004.

WASHINGTON, DC Over the past eighteen months, oil prices have more than doubled, inflicting huge costs on the global economy.

In roughly the same period, Iran s imports also soared, from 22 billion in 1994 to 45 billion in 2006.

The leopard they are now in big numbers but they are now far away from our village, because the natural plain has multiplied, like zebras, springboks and everything.

Interception on land and at sea, security checks and other measures have made legal access to a territory where asylum can be claimed increasingly difficult.

Since the membership of the Group of Eastern European States has doubled over the last decade, it should have an additional non permanent seat in the Council.

The gross irregularities in the negotiating process  which included the imposition of terms, secrecy, exclusion and discrimination have now been compounded by the grave omissions in this document.

While the proportion of women who received retirement benefits or pensions doubled for white women, it increased by only 70 for black women.

Regional and bilateral free trade agreements have also multiplied since 1998, with even China establishing such an arrangement with ASEAN at the beginning of this year.

As a result, from 1995 to 2007, inflation adjusted government fiscal revenue increased 5.7 times.

During that period, the yen s value more than doubled against the dollar, rising from its original fixed rate of 360 to 144 at the end of 1989.

But the iron ore companies have gotten a windfall gain as iron ore prices have soared (nearly doubling since 2007).

According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, the economic costs of disasters associated with natural hazards have increased fourteen fold since the 1950s.

Thirty years of rapid growth brought only half of China s famers (about 200 million people) into the industrial or service sectors, where their wages doubled.

Intra African trade is only about 11 per cent of total trade, the lowest among world regions however, it has doubled since 1980.

Since then, China s ICOR has more than doubled, demonstrating the need for significantly more investment to generate an additional unit of output.

For example, we now have a super size International Monetary Fund, whose lending capacity has been tripled, to roughly 750 billion.

If, for example, the world s vegetable supply more than doubled, fresh, healthy food would become more affordable and accessible. Perhaps demand for corn syrup and processed foods would even decline.

Fuel efficiencies in the automotive sector have increased by more than 60 in the past three decades, while overall wealth produced per unit of energy has doubled during the same period.

In some areas of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal, the price of food especially millet doubled, while prices for undernourished cattle and other livestock plummeted.

Since that time, there has been an upsurge in crimes against humanity and acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing as a result of the criminal activities of Congolese and foreign forces and groups, particularly in the eastern provinces.