His legal practice on the Northern Circuit rose fivefold, although he had to wait until 1827 before being made a King's Counsel.

From 1980 to 2001, emergency room visits for cheerleading injuries rose fivefold.

During the 1960s, the number of Chinese people in London rose fivefold.

Energy prices rose fivefold earlier this month, and are scheduled to be freed in another three months.

Other large spending increases were in computer system support, which in the past three years rose fivefold, to $96 million, and in building maintenance, which totaled 1.9 percent of the budget last year, up from 1.3 percent two years earlier.

Iron production rose fivefold from 800 to 1078, to about 125,000 English tons (114,000 metric tons), not counting unregistered iron production.

But with inflation, that seems likely to rise fivefold.

Since founding his firm in late 1979, Mr. Black's accounts have outpaced the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500, rising sevenfold while the S.&P. rose fivefold.

Over the same period, the operating system's share of the total cost of a personal computer rose fivefold, from five-tenths of a percent to 2.5 percent.

ARCO reported that its earnings rose fivefold, and Ashland Oil Inc., the nation's largest independent oil refiner, said its net income more than doubled, bolstered by non-oil results.