All of this has occurred despite an eightfold increase in Federal antidrug spending.

The trade deficit staged an eightfold increase in November compared with the same month a year ago, to $322 million, according to government statistics.

Three years later he sold it to Fletcher Challenge for £299 million - an eightfold increase.

They argued the measure was needed due an eightfold increase in naturalisations between 1991 and 2006.

Another 300 planes are in the 20 to 30 seat category, an eightfold increase in the same period.

But Asia experienced an eightfold increase of cases, to 250,000 from more than 30,000, the study said.

Federal spending on foster care ballooned to $2.55 billion in 1993 from $309 million in 1981 - an eightfold increase.

The Government had predicted that rateable values would rise by about seven times, but the revaluation has produced an eightfold increase.

That includes more than 48,000 girls, a nearly eightfold increase in the same time period.

Maryland's total seizures last year were an eightfold increase over 1993 for all forms of cocaine.