three-fold
Americannoun
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Pancreatic cancer is pernicious, but five-year survival has increased three-fold since the 1990s to 13%, which the report attributes to more cancers being detected incidentally at earlier stages when they are easier to treat.
This unusual pattern reflects the three-fold rotational symmetry of how atoms are arranged on the surface of PtBi2.
From Science Daily
So why, then, is Google investing more than $90bn a year in the AI build-out, a three-fold increase in just four years, at the very moment these suggestions are being discussed?
From BBC
The overall expected costs of these services have increased more than three-fold since they were signed - from £4.5bn to £15bn.
From BBC
In July it said more than half of its 300 million subscribers watch anime, and the genre was watched more than one billion times in 2024, a three-fold rise in the last five years.
From BBC
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