In a mere half-century the South has more than tripled its urban status.

The share of the new housing market enjoyed by apartments, which began about six years ago, has more than tripled within that span of time.

West of Broadway as far as Canal Street was the city's fashionable residential area until circa 1825 ; landfill has more than tripled the area and the Hudson shore now lies far to the west, beyond TriBeCa and Battery Park City.

Since the end of World War II, the number of students entering universities has more than tripled, and the trade and technical schools are among the world's best.

Over the last decade European consumption of cocaine is believed to have tripled, and West Africa has become a primary transit point for trafficking the drug from Colombia to Europe.

Today, only the Russian minority, which has tripled in numbers since 1935, remains important.

The first millionth subscription was registered in September 2005 since then the number of subscriptions has more than tripled and now amounts to around 3, 715, 000 which is a bit more than the estimated population of the country, this means that the penetration level has exceeded 100 %.

Over the years, the number of cars on Pakistani roads has tripled.

In the post-Soviet era, the area planted to grains ( mainly wheat ) has nearly tripled.

From 2002 to 2006, the conserved land in the Amazon rainforest has almost tripled and deforestation rates have dropped up to 60 %.

The numbers provided are inconclusive, given the tremendous birthrate of Haredi Jews in Wiliamsburg and Boro Park ; some estimate their population has doubled or tripled in the last 20 years.

Ammonia ( NH < sub > 3 </ sub >) in the atmosphere has tripled as the result of human activities.

No player has ever retired with a 4. 000 slugging percentage, but four players tripled in their only at-bat, and share the ML record of a career slugging percentage of 3. 000.

Cargo traffic has tripled over the past two decades.

Over the past 50 years, however, its population has tripled, due to the development of the Paris conurbation and the building of new towns.

Since 1990, the population has tripled.

As of the 2000 Census, the village had a mere 5, 730 people, meaning the village's population has more than tripled in eight years.

The band has almost tripled in size, received numerous awards including best drumline, best drum major, and has had continuous success at competitions receiving all superior and excellent ratings.

Since 1999, much of the country land has tripled in price.

" By 2010, almost 20 years later, the estimated wealth of the Al-Sabah family is unknown, but many observers predict that it has tripled, or even quadrupled over the years, as the Al-Sabah's have the largest shares in almost all the blue chip corporations in the Western world, with tens of billions of dollars invested in companies from Citibank to Daimler AG to Merrill Lynch.

After World War II, as Tokyo expanded rapidly and modern transportation allowed longer commutes, the lack of available land in Tokyo led to the rapid development of Saitama Prefecture, whose population has nearly tripled since 1960.

The size of the student body has nearly tripled during his tenure.

At the time of writing ( May 6, 2009 ), OpenLieroX has tripled in code size and has many new features.

The original meaning of the word " neuron " in Greek is " vegetable fiber " and recent research has shown that most of the intraorganismic plant communication processes are neuronal-like.

The typical discus has sides made of plastic, wood, fiberglass, carbon fiber or metal with a metal rim and a metal core to attain the weight.

The role of satellites in point-to-point voice and data communications has largely been supplanted by fiber optics ; in 2006, 99 % of the world's long-distance voice and data traffic was carried over optical-fiber.

Asian hair typically has a round fiber and is quite straight.

The Trevita, which translates into " three whites " in Swedish, has a body made entirely out of Koenigsegg's proprietary material consisting of diamond-coated carbon fiber.

It follows that to calculate latency of a connection, one has to know the distance traveled by the fiber, which is rarely a straight line, since it has to traverse geographic contours and obstacles, such as roads and railway tracks, as well as other rights-of-way.

A crystal structure of a tetranucleosome has been presented and used to build up a proposed structure of the 30 nm fiber as a two-start helix.

In recent years, carbon fiber has been added to the commonly used E-glass and S-glass materials to create a pole with a lighter carry weight.

A router has interfaces for different physical types of network connections, ( such as copper cables, fiber optic, or wireless transmission ).

The issue of the warping of the discs has been partially solved using new materials such as carbon fiber.

Wireless Internet service has also provided city Internet users with some degree of choice in a country where private companies have not been allowed to offer wired alternatives ( e. g. cable TV Internet, fiber to the home ) to the state-operated ADSL service.

Each SM has four optical fiber links, two connecting to a CM belonging to ONTC 0 and two to ONTC 1.

Today, the success of this program has made cotton the best-selling fiber in the U. S. and one of the best-selling fibers in the world.

Additionally, rubber produced as a fiber sometimes called elastic, has significant value for use in the textile industry because of its excellent elongation and recovery properties.

Seeking a way to address these shortcomings, the textile industry has turned to Neoprene ( polymer form of Chloroprene ), a type of synthetic rubber as well as another more commonly used elastomer fiber, spandex ( also known as elastane ), because of their superiority to rubber in both strength and durability.

Although brown flax can be consumed as readily as yellow, and has been for thousands of years, it is better known as an ingredient in paints, fiber and cattle feed.

An average plantain has about 220 calories and is a good source of potassium and dietary fiber.

In fiber optics, a cladding mode is a mode that is confined to the cladding of an optical fiber by virtue of the fact that the cladding has a higher refractive index than the surrounding medium, which is either air or the primary polymer overcoat.

A single mode fiber laser has a linewidth of a few kHz.

In fiber optics, a graded-index or gradient-index fiber is an optical fiber whose core has a refractive index that decreases with increasing radial distance from the fiber axis ( the imaginary central axis running down the length of the fiber ).