Definitions

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  • adjective By a multiple of forty; by forty times as much or as many.
  • adverb By a factor of forty.

Etymologies

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forty +‎ -fold

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Examples

  • I would later learn from a New York Times Magazine cover article that there has been a fortyfold increase in the diagnosis in recent years—a whopping 4,000 percent increase since the mid-1990s, according to National Public Radio.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • I would later learn from a New York Times Magazine cover article that there has been a fortyfold increase in the diagnosis in recent years—a whopping 4,000 percent increase since the mid-1990s, according to National Public Radio.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Using these figures, there was a fortyfold increase in incentives in the highest tax bracket versus the lowest tax bracket per dollar of static revenue loss when Kennedy cut tax rates.

    RETURN TO PROSPERITY Arthur B. Laffer 2010

  • The wonderful people I worked with would increase their efforts tenfold, fortyfold if they had to, whatever it took to take care of the troops.

    Talking with Dr. Chris Coppola, author of "Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq" 2009

  • Its chief academic cheerleader, Harvard child psychiatrist Joseph Biederman, who headed its center at Mass Gen, has been benched for apparent psychopathology-for-pay schemes under which he increased the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder fortyfold.

    Fragile: Handle with Risperdal 2009

  • The relevant chapter of my Climbing Mount Improbable is called “The fortyfold Path to Enlightenment” in honour of the fact that, far from being difficult to evolve, the eye has evolved at least 40 times independently around the animal kingdom.

    Richard Dawkins: God's Gift to Kansas 2008

  • Some sites, like myhealthdirective. com, saw traffic jump as much as fortyfold.

    HEALTH: RULES TO LIVE (AND DIE) BY 2007

  • And achieving a superambitious goal of $2 million a fortyfold increase in less than ten years would require maximum use of his resources.

    Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006

  • And achieving a superambitious goal of $2 million a fortyfold increase in less than ten years would require maximum use of his resources.

    Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006

  • China has been imposing tariffs and quotas on its rare earth exports for the last several years, curtailing global supplies and forcing prices to rise eightfold to fortyfold during that period for the various 17 rare earth elements.

    NYT > Home Page By KEITH BRADSHER 2011

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