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- adverb By a
factor oftwelve .
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Examples
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While the United States is projected to roughly triple its wind generation by 2020, China will increase its capacity twelvefold to a wind generating capability more than twice that of America's.
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Lifted by Derivatives, Tax Benefit Mosaic Co. said its fiscal third-quarter net income surged more than twelvefold as the fertilizer maker recorded derivative gains and a tax benefit and the company continues to be helped by rising prices and demand despite "significantly higher" raw materials costs.
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Investors initially loved the union, as Sears stock steadily climbed more than twelvefold.
Peter Newcomb: Attention K-Mart Shoppers—Your Shares Have Been Marked Down: Peter Newcomb Newcomb, Peter 2008
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The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980.
Update: No Federal Hate Crime Charges; A Call For Reordering Our Judicial Priorities 2007
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Now Russia alone is conservatively estimated to have 3 million addicts, a twelvefold increase over a decade ago.
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The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980.
Update: No Federal Hate Crime Charges; A Call For Reordering Our Judicial Priorities 2007
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It needs to invest about $37 billion a year in modernizing electricity-consuming equipment -- a twelvefold increase from today's levels.
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Korea's largest oil refiner -- which has seen profits rise twelvefold to $1.6 billion since 2000 -- despite an accounting scandal in 2002.
Rolling in the Dough 2007
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Korea's largest oil refiner -- which has seen profits rise twelvefold to $1.6 billion since 2000 -- despite an accounting scandal in 2002.
ROLLING IN THE DOUGH 2007
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And there is a fifth figure (which is made out of twelve pentagons), the dodecahedron — this God used as a model for the twelvefold division of the Zodiac.
Timaeus 2006
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