You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.
你可能会想,你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方,会花费很长一段时间。
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Experts say that a quarter of children born in Britain today can expect to live to 100 and believe there will be a twelve-fold increase of centenarians over the next 30 years.
Its shares rose twelve-fold between 2002 and 2007, only to plunge once again as the economic downturn and an increase in the supply of power from natural gas depressed energy prices.