Officials say titanium alone has seen a fivefold price increase.
Mr. Greenwood, whose Ramsey Auto Service is on the eastern fringe of the seven-block-long central business district, says he has seen a fivefold increase in rush-hour traffic in town since he moved to Ramsey, a 5.65-square-mile borough in Bergen County, in 1976.
In the past two years David Sze, a partner at venture firm Greylock, has seen a fivefold increase in the number of pitches from consumer-targeted outfits.
Seasoned Pioneers, which produces spice mixes and employs seven people on Merseyside, said it had seen a fivefold increase in orders.
One is demographic, after 50 years that have seen a fivefold population increase in the Tampa Bay area, which includes the cities of Tampa, St . Petersburg and Clearwater and the counties of Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco.
Over 40% of Americans say they would never vote for an atheist presidential candidate.Yet the past seven years have seen a fivefold increase in people who call themselves atheists, to 5% of the population, according to WIN-Gallup International, a network of pollsters.
For instance, in the past three decades, coinciding with a mad dash towards growth and industrialisation, China has seen a more than fivefold jump in mortality rates for lung cancer.
Although Rabbitte pledged little new money for the initiatives, Irish scientists have seen an improvement in their bottom line of late: Federal spending on basic research has risen fivefold in 3 years, to IrL2.5 million ($4 million) in 1996.
Since then, Modern Putra, which is also the national distributor for Fujifilm, has seen its sales jump fivefold, reaching 320 billion rupiah, or about $35 million, in 2011.
George Tsomaia, who runs Georgia's biggest haulage company, has seen his business increase more than fivefold since 1995.
An HMV spokesman said that in previous years lesser-known winners such as Ms Dynamite and Antony & the Johnsons had seen fivefold increases in sales.
