The sure way to nirvana or salvation lies in the noble eightfold path, as propounded by the Buddha.
The number of overseas students taking higher degree courses, such as masters and doctorates, has soared - rising more than eightfold since the mid-1990s.
Sales of Audi's flagship, the A8, have jumped eightfold since being redesigned a year ago.
The eightfold path, like the Ten Commandments, is as useful a guide for living a moral life as any on earth.
If rejecting partition was a mistake then, it is a bigger one now that Israel's population has increased eightfold.
Since 2006 Ryanair's passenger traffic to and from Marseille has jumped eightfold, to 1.7m, as French travellers snap up flights at a fraction of the prices charged by air France.
In the last months of his premiership, Tony Blair acceded to a European directive on renewables that requires Britain to generate 15% of its energy from renewables by 2020, an almost eightfold rise.
Multiplied by eight; eightfold.
Netbook sales were meteoric in 2009, jumping eightfold in the United States, to 7.5 million devices, and tripling worldwide to 34 million.
Among women who had taken over a year to conceive-possibly a proxy for longer use of the drugs-the risk increased eightfold.
