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The phrase "fivefold increase in the number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation where a quantity has increased by five times compared to a previous measurement.
Example: "The study reported a fivefold increase in the number of participants over the last decade."
Alternatives: "five times increase in the number of" or "increase by a factor of five in the number of".
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The reports showed a fivefold increase in the number of stop-and-frisks from 2002 to last year, with more than half of them involving black residents.
With a fivefold increase in the number of tourists to the city since 1990, only 20% of walkers on its main street are locals, new hotels abound and many landlords are cashing in by illegally letting out apartments to tourists.
The party says that there has been a fivefold increase in the number of patients waiting longer than six weeks for key cancer tests – up from 1,856 patients in May 2010 to 10,616 patients in August 2014.
Whatever one might think of the reasons behind this, it is the invention of a new category of failure, and will cause, according to O'Shaughnessy, "a fivefold increase in the number of schools being told they need to improve".
The UK's top counter-terrorism officer has appealed to the public, family members and friends to help identify aspiring terrorists as he revealed a fivefold increase in the number of arrests this year for terrorism-related offences.
A cabinet committee led by Mr. Cameron approved a fivefold increase in the number of private guards to be recruited by G4S, and a similar increase in police and military deployments.
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There were 508,540 street stops all last year, a fivefold increase in the number from 2002.
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The incidence of c-myc amplification was 26%, ranging from two- to fivefold increase in copy number.
Growth factor removal led to a fivefold reduction in the number of surviving neurons (compared with growth factor-supplemented condition), whereas 5D10 treatment following growth factor removal increased the number of surviving neurons by fivefold.
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