Etymology
Origin of severalfold
Example Sentences
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"We want to multiply the output severalfold as quickly as possible," he said.
From Reuters
“Moderna’s scientists made the groundbreaking discovery that replacing uridine in the mRNA molecule with 1-methylpseudouridine resulted in surprisingly superior protein production—a severalfold increase over chemically-modified mRNAs studied before—with a significantly reduced immune response against the mRNA itself,” the complaint argues.
From Science Magazine
The reasons for doing so are severalfold.
From Scientific American
And in one nursing home where the variant took hold, it spread severalfold faster than in four other nursing home outbreaks caused by other viral variants.
From Science Magazine
Those who agree, he adds, form “a community that I've seen grow severalfold in size over the last decade.”
From Scientific American
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