Since Mr. Glass took the reins of Wal-Mart from Sam Walton in 1988, the company's annual revenue is estimated to have expanded tenfold to an expected $165 billion for the current fiscal year ending Jan. 31.

In Germany, a court upheld a form of stock options last month that Daimler offered two years ago to 170 executives, a pool it has since expanded tenfold, while also increasing the size of its still-modest option packages.

Huhne's carbon plan proposes that in 20 years renewable energy, mainly wind, should have been expanded tenfold from 5 gigawatts to 50GW, providing 40 per cent of power by 2030.

By the time of his death, the Black Guard had expanded tenfold.

But by 1993 they had expanded roughly tenfold, to more than 160,000 acres, said Geopolitical Drug Watch, a Paris-based private study group.

The program, New York City Teaching Fellows, has expanded tenfold and will place 2,000 new recruits in city schools in September.

In the 1990s, Dr. Weird's muscle tone had expanded tenfold, and his eyes had changed from a lifeless white to a dark red.

If time is money, as the saying goes, the worth of my scarf had been expanded tenfold.

For if we are willing to consider rock-art graphemes as full-fledged historical documents," he says, "then the framework of human history will be expanded tenfold, from 5,000 to 50,000 years.

In the new "Millionaire" all the dollar figures will be expanded tenfold.