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Since the 1960s the amount of fertiliser used by farmers has increased sixfold, and not all of that extra nitrogen ends up in their crops.

In their study, Glasgow University researchers found a sixfold difference in caffeine quantities in cups of espresso.

Such fears have ramped the price of gold up to an incredible $1, 545 a troy ounce, up almost sixfold in a decade.

The United Nations has seen a sixfold increase since 1998 in the number of soldiers and military observers it deploys around the world.

Meanwhile the Baltic Dry Index, an indicator of shipping activity, has risen more than sixfold from its December low.

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has increased almost sixfold, new data suggests.

Shanghai's benchmark index has increased sixfold in just over two years.

That tax has risen sixfold in two years.

That represents a more than sixfold increase in funding since 2001.

Paulson's Credit Opportunities Fund soared almost sixfold in 2007 on bets that subprime mortgages would plummet.

In the 12 years he's owned the wire basket and hook maker, Greenblatt has doubled head count while increasing revenue sixfold.

Close to 19 million students are enrolled, a sixfold jump in one decade.

Chinese manufacturers' share grew sixfold from 2004 to 2008, capturing more than one-third of the global market.

Exports of Australian boxed beef grew nearly sixfold between 2005 and 2009, to the delight of diners at posh restaurants in Jakarta.

By September 3, 1929, it had risen more than sixfold, touching 381. 2.

Property and share prices bubbled, rising as much as sixfold.

Its bosses predict that its revenues and passenger numbers will increase sixfold by 2025.

In some products imports have grown sixfold and prices have fallen by a third.

Between the 1980s and the 2000s, the pay of US bosses went up sixfold but so did the value of companies, he says.

In the first half of the 1980s, LBO transactions increased sixfold.

That is impossible. Geometry dictates that only two-, three-, four- and sixfold rotational symmetry can exist.

Since then, the gold price has risen sixfold.

As the chart shows, funding from outside the banking system will have grown sixfold since 2002, to 806 billion yuan ($103 billion).

Rural incomes have risen sixfold since 1990, according to official Chinese data.

GMC's annual sales in the region have risen sixfold since 1999, to more than 30, 000 vehicles.

A sixfold gain in the Shanghai Composite Index between 2005 and late last year made Chinese companies among the most valuable on the planet.

Ticket receipts in China: 2010 box office sales totaled more than $1. 5 billion, a sixfold increase in five years.

Their number during the year to date has quadrupled compared with last year, while the value has risen sixfold.

Garlic, for example, is 35% cheaper than its peak in April, having risen nearly sixfold in the past year.

Soho China, which said on Sunday its profits increased nearly sixfold last year to Rmb1. 97bn ($277m), has a war chest of Rmb15bn in cash.

Gilt grew almost sixfold last year and is on track tohit $500 million in revenues in 2010.

In the June quarter, the company's revenues in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan combined grew sixfold to US$3. 8bn.

The figures are mind-boggling -- per capita income increased sixfold from 2002 to 2009;

Data from the Hong Kong government showed that China imported a record 56. 9 tonnes in September, a sixfold increase from 2010.