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Example sentences for "increasing number"

  • At the time of this writing he did not altogether lack the sympathy of the Street, and an increasing number of people were not sorry to see Mr. Mavick get the worst of it in repeated trials of strength.

  • An increasing number of people read nothing except the newspapers.

  • Those who watch the criminal reports are alarmed by the fact that an increasing number of those arrested for felonies are discharged convicts.

  • In times past this has been the usual classification, but of late years an increasing number of states have made a change and now regard the institutions as merely educational.

  • Round Manchester and other larger northern manufacturing towns an increasing number of factories are springing up; in the United States the same phenomenon is still commoner.

  • There is far less economic independence on the farm than formerly, and in the towns and cities the home is little more than a place in which to sleep and eat for an increasing number of workers, both men and women.

  • Nothing less than these three tasks of investigation, education, and service belong to every church; toward this ideal is moving an increasing number of churches in the country.

  • On the other hand, there is an increasing number of employers who feel their responsibility to those who are in their employ, and, except in the department stores, they are usually associated personally with their employees.

  • An increasing number of young people from the country are going to college.

  • Another cause, and a fruitful cause, of nomadic life is to be found in the ever-increasing number of young incapables that our present-day life produces.

  • Nay, it increases the evil, for it secures to our country an ever-increasing number of those who are absolutely unfitted to fulfil the duties of citizenship.

  • To build an ever-increasing number of hospitals, asylums for lunatics, idiots and incurables, reformatories, etc.

  • I am convinced that a careful study would reveal an increasing number of cases of psychopathia acquired by suggestion or auto-suggestion.

  • The experience of extensive use of natural resources, in particular through farming, is only one among an increasing number of experiences.

  • An increasing number of esoteric, exotic, scientific, or pseudoscientific sects today bear witness to the same.

  • This statement is valid for an increasing number of practical experiences in the pragmatics of the civilization of illiteracy-not for all of them.

  • They shrink even more for the increasing number of people shopping through the World Wide Web, according to formulas custom designed for them.

  • There are, however, an increasing number of cases of soldiers being transferred abruptly to the U-boat service.

  • This black awakening paralleled a growing realization among an increasing number of white Americans that the demands of the civil rights leaders were just and that the government should act.

  • An increasing number of complaints is received with regard to defective natural lighting and badly adjusted or otherwise defective artificial lighting.

  • In Coventry the cycle industry employed an increasing number of women; watchmaking was becoming a factory industry, and the proportion of women to men had increased rapidly.

  • On the veranda an increasing number of guests was assembling and the hum of voices, the clatter of plates and the noisy shifting of chairs grew ever louder.

  • An increasing number of people from the audience began to come behind the scenes.

  • She wanted impulsively to press his hand and thank him for the promise, but her courage failed her, for she noticed that an increasing number of people were curiously observing them.

  • An increasing number of onlookers began to crowd into the dressing-room and derisive remarks, aimed at the generally disliked Kaczkowska, flew about.

  • In addition to this, the strain (already referred to) under which teachers in the Metropolitan and larger urban districts work, is resulting in an increasing number of nervous breaksdown.

  • There is, then, likely to be an increasing number of openings for women who can afford the double training.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "increasing number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and was; collected over; consider that; could not have told; cried angrily; faith only; father looked; great prosperity; high seat; historical fact; increasing efforts; increasing number; increasing the; increasingly used; industrial unionism; more feet; musical sounds; peace times; regards myself; she heard; should produce; such cases; thousand pities; walled town; would advise