Sentence examples for multiple was from inspiring English sources

In 1979, the multiple was 16.5, according to the commission.

Last year, BP's "boss-peon" multiple was 63.

The companies' price-to-book multiple was 3.01, versus 2.83 for the index.

The average income multiple was slightly less for homebuyers - 3.03 times income, up from 3.01 in April.

The last time a cohort that big was trading at that sort of a multiple was in 1991.

In 1991, a rich resident earned 21 times more than a poor one; in 2010 the multiple was 56.

Historically, the multiple is 1.

Now the multiple is about 2.2 times.

By some volume measures, the multiple is even higher.

Yet its price-to-earnings multiple is a miserly nine.

Now the multiple is 30.