Sentence examples for risen five times from inspiring English sources

Interest rates have already risen five times since last August.

Median prices have risen five times faster than earnings since 1997, rents soaring faster still.

In Germany, still a manufacturing and export powerhouse, average hourly pay has risen five times faster since 1985 than in the United States.

Under Obama, the number of detainees has risen five times.

And over the last year, prices in France have risen four times as fast as their salaries.

He predicted that in 100 years, national income would have risen eight times over.

Wealth inequality has risen four times faster in the seven years after the crash compared with the seven years before.

Over the past 10 years, chief executives' pay has risen nine times faster than that of the median earner.

The same report found that the incomes of the top 0.1 per cent have risen four times faster than the bottom 90 per cent in the last 20 years.

That strategy has paid dividends for years: Comcast's stock has risen three times as fast as the Standard & Poor's 500-stock induringring the last two decades.

Since 1999 house prices have risen more slowly than income in South Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong as well as China (see right-hand chart above).In contrast, in America, house prices have risen three times as fast as real incomes.