What's the difference between twenty and twentyfold?
Twenty
Definition:
(a.) One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.
(a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.
(n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.
(n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(3) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(4) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(5) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
(6) Twenty-nine patients had a marked organic tricuspid valvular disease.
(7) Four hundred and twenty-five lesions were dilated in 370 patients.
(8) Striated muscle fibres were found in each of twenty consecutive pineal glands cultured from individual neonatal rats.2.
(9) Twenty-seven human septums were removed at post mortem, examined macroscopically, sectioned coronally and examined microscopically.
(10) Twenty-one patients received 4.5 mg. per kilogram of intramuscular lidocaine and 25 patients received placebo in the deltoid muscle within 14 hours of the onset of symptoms.
(11) Twenty strains did not agglutinate with commercial serum O-Yersinia IMUNA; they were included in the group "Yersinia enterocolitica other biovars" and 60 strains were "Environmental Yersinia isolates".
(12) The results showed that twenty-eight bands were significantly rearranged (P less than 0.05).
(13) Twenty cases of advanced testicular tumors treated primarily by PVB therapy were reviewed.
(14) Lipoprotein(a) was discovered by chance by Berg in 1963; after twenty years of research, the chemical, physical and metabolic characteristics of Lp(a) are now known.
(15) Four of 18 patients showed no change over the twenty-four hours while 7 patients showed some variation without definite diurnal pattern.
(16) Heptathletes peak in their mid-to-late twenties – two Olympic cycles away yet for Johnson-Thompson – so what would she like to achieve in London?
(17) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(18) Twenty-six contacts of 21 families were vaccinated, usually within three days after onset of the index cases.
(19) Twenty patients with central retinal vein occlusion were randomly divided into two groups in a prospective study to evaluate the effects of xenon are photocoagulation in central retinal vein occlusion.
(20) The twenty-five participants, from four different countries, were asked to rate each TC regarding its importance for teachers and whether they possessed them or needed further training.
Twentyfold
Definition:
(a.) Twenty times as many.
Example Sentences:
(1) Professor He Zuoxiu, who helped to develop China's first atomic bomb, caused a storm last month when he claimed that plans to ramp up production of nuclear energy twentyfold by 2030 could be as disastrous as the Great Leap Forward.
(2) Professor Nutt contrasts a 2.6 fold increase in risk of psychosis carried by using cannabis with a twentyfold increase in risk of lung cancer if one smokes cigarettes.
(3) After stimulation with glucagon, the median adenosine-3',5'-monophosphate concentration in obstructive jaundice rose fortyfold or more, while in nonobstructive jaundice, the increase was twentyfold or less.
(4) Upon cooling to - 196 degrees C, the fluorescence efficiency increases about twentyfold.
(5) Neutrophils accounted for more than 75% of the inflammatory cells in the first week when there was a greater than twentyfold rise in the levels of glucosaminidase in lavage fluids.
(6) Twentyfold purification of toxin Z was obtained on a Sephadex G-200 column.
(7) At the same time the share price increased twentyfold.
(8) For example, the 1871 census records that there were 9,832 accountants in England and Wales and that has risen twentyfold in the last 140 years to 215,678.
(9) A survey of the risk of coronary arteriography indicates that mortality increases at least twentyfold and morbidity sixfold when this procedure is performed in laboratories with a low caseload as compared with high caseload institutions.
(10) The observed frequency of the tumor was twentyfold less than expected among the Negro population.
(11) Increase of [K](o) tenfold to 47 mM increased the basal but not the ACTH-stimulated output of corticosteroid whereas raising [K](o) twentyfold to 94 mM enhanced both the basal and ACTH-stimulated steroid production rate.
(12) There was found a tenfold variation in plasma levels for penfluridol, and about a twentyfold variation for thiothixene.
(13) A "flat" glucose tolerance test should be regarded as an abnormal pattern in normotensive pregnancies as it was associated with a twentyfold increased risk of intrauterine growth retardation in this study.
(14) A fivefold increase of AST and a twentyfold increase of CK up to day 3 was followed by a significant decrease towards the end of the race.
(15) It is certainly very inappropriate to suggest that any adverse effect of bacon and sausages on the risk of bowel cancer is comparable to the dangers of tobacco smoke, which is loaded with known chemical carcinogens and increases the risk of lung cancer in cigarette smokers by around twentyfold.” The North American Meat Institute said defining red meat as a cancer hazard defied common sense.
(16) With LDL isolated from patients on diet alone oxidation led to a 44.3% decreased binding to fibroblasts (P less than 0.001), a ninefold increased uptake in macrophages (P less than 0.001) and a twentyfold increase in TBARS content (P less than 0.001) as compared to native LDL.
(17) The hypoxanthine concentration is increased about twentyfold during oxygen deficiency.
(18) The differences between individuals in the CyA concentration required for 50% inhibition of the human alloreactions were twentyfold for the MLR and fortyfold for the CML.
(19) After the freeze-dried samples were dissolved to give tenfold to twentyfold concentrated solutions, levels of agents were bioassayed by means of the thin-layer-disc method.
(20) Coating beads with bovine serum albumin (BSA) causes a fourfold reduction in adsorption and a twentyfold reduction in uptake.