fivefold

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• The so-called blank-check firms have raised $70 billion in 2020 — a fivefold increase from 2019 — and at least 15 EV companies have been taken public or have listings pending.

• In a 2003 study in Conservation Biology, Keesing and Ostfeld found that the risk of exposure to Lyme increases fivefold when canopied areas cover less than five acres.

• Gap year organizations are seeing a fivefold increase in inquiries.

• Hong Kong underwent a “third wave” in August, in which total infection numbers increased nearly fivefold.

• Though Tesla’s share price declined 6% on Wednesday, it’s still up more than fivefold this year.

• Tweets with “Bill Cosby” increased fivefold from the previous day to 103,000.

• And one hair broker, TheHairTrader.com, has seen its traffic increase fivefold over the past few months.

• The applause, now multiplied fivefold and become deafening, seemed to beat him back against the curtain.

• Through a crevice in this wall the water seeped, and when he had gouged out the puttylike blue clay the flow increased fivefold.

• The white population of Chicago increased threefold from 1880 to 1900, and the colored population fivefold.

• While the membership, doubled under the impulse of the new organization, the increase in the amount of money raised was fivefold.