The phrase 'multiple by' is not correct or usable in written English.
To mean 'multiply', you should use the phrase 'multiply by'. For example: We multiplied the number by three.
It is still at a high price-to-earnings multiple by historical measures, but it has fallen.
The News Corporation is paying about 17 times cash flow, a relatively large multiple by industry standards, said Scott Davis, who follows Chris-Craft for First Union Securities.
Pearson paid $466 million, or about 1.6 times annual sales, for the small children's book publisher Dorling Kindersly -- a high multiple by traditional standards, according to industry executives.
I'm not really sure if the Beuys is a genuine multiple by this time – it's been on sale since the 1970s – or just a souvenir.
The hedge fund magnate wants Apple's stock to earn a higher multiple by dealing with the cash problem.
He trumpets the multiple by which Welch's income exceeds that of a typical worker, and the latest statistics about increasing wealth inequality, as if these were covered-up facts that will surely galvanize the reader.
In the biotechnological process, insufficient cofactor NADH and multiple by-products restrain the final titer of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PD).
Davis immediately appointed an unelected cabinet minister who refused to run in any of the multiple by-elections on the go for some weird reason, Tories kept resigning.
There were diverse ways that the bacteria could have been prevented from growing for example, multiple by-products generated when DCM is broken down are highly toxic.
To determine the origin of multiple BY-kinases in the Burkoholderia common ancestor, additional phylogenetic analysis based on CD were performed and resulted in six distinct well-supported subclades (Burk 1 6) (supplementary fig. S2 and table S4, Supplementary Material online).
Since going public in 2006, Vonage was hit by multiple lawsuits by telephone service providers.
