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- Fifty times.
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Examples
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China increased solar panel production fifty-fold between 2005 and 2010.
L. Randall Wray: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in the President's State of the Union Address L. Randall Wray 2011
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Bigger is not better when a 1 kilometer asteroid masses fifty times as much as Apophis, and thus requires a fifty-fold increase in the product of mission time and fuel mass.
Asteroid Capture into Earth Orbit Stephen D. Covey 2010
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I will show how an investment of perhaps $20B will result in a trillion dollars worth of resources – a fifty-fold gain, with tremendous benefits for all of humanity humanity.
Asteroid Capture into Earth Orbit Stephen D. Covey 2010
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One is valued at thirty - or forty - or fifty-fold more than most middle-class families would ever live in in their lifetimes.
McCain Campaign Response: Obama Worries About Arugula, Vacations In Hawaii 2009
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They eat everything in sight and multiply fifty-fold – until they have consumed everything, when they turn in desperation on each other, munch off their siblings' heads, and then fall out of the sky dead.
Archive 2008-05-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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They eat everything in sight and multiply fifty-fold – until they have consumed everything, when they turn in desperation on each other, munch off their siblings' heads, and then fall out of the sky dead.
Are there just too many people for this planet?: Why we should be actively distributing and promoting the use of contraception Stephen Retherford 2008
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Its capitalisation has increased fifty-fold over the past seven years, and he now proposes doing the same with other state corporations in order to attract one trillion dollars of new investment into Russia's decaying infrastructure.
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Remarkably, the global biotech crop area increased more than fifty-fold in the first decade of commercialization.
Biotechnology for the Masses Nick Anthis 2006
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Remarkably, the global biotech crop area increased more than fifty-fold in the first decade of commercialization.
Archive 2006-01-01 Nick Anthis 2006
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‘I bought you a small, but significant position in a Venezuelan dot.com IPO, and hey presto – the stock increased fifty-fold, and …’
Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006
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