Sentence examples for risen three times from inspiring English sources

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.

Since the late nineteen-seventies, annual costs at four-year colleges have risen three times as fast as inflation, and, with savings rates dropping and state aid to colleges being cut, students have been forced to take on ever more debt in order to pay for school.

Re "Increased Spending on Drugs Is Linked to More Advertising" (Business Day, Nov. 21): The cost of a trip to the pharmacy has doubled in six years, and prescription drug spending has risen three times faster than any other health care expense.

Because pay has risen three times faster than expected - by 9% instead of 3%.

Unions say fares have risen three times as much as wages over the last four years.

It has risen four times in the past five years.

Interest rates have already risen five times since last August.

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.

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