Sentence examples for a startling increase from inspiring English sources

Since 2001, several areas have had a startling increase in food stamp use, mirroring a national trend.

Pierce said that a sampling of that portion of the stream last September, a repeat of work done in September 1996, revealed a startling increase of trout.

Shortly afterwards, the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the relationship of its "defining shared purpose".Since then, America's relations with China have been marked by a startling increase in economic interdependence, but not by any onset of mutual trust.

The range of problems analysts see among Thai youth are on full view here in Na Chueak in northeastern Thailand, where a startling increase in violence among young people belies the serenity of the Thai countryside.

By now, there are more than 60 Virginia wineries, a startling increase from the six lonely pioneers of 1979, and the state government runs an active wine marketing program.

There are, he asserts, 33 million free agents, a "staggering" total -- and a startling increase over the 25 million figure in his Fast Company story from just three years ago.

In almost every country, you'll see a dramatic or startling increase in confidence between 2008 and 2011.

But I haven't seen any startling increases in student achievement in that period".

"What has become apparent is there's a fairly dramatic and startling increase in pertussis in children in the seven- to 10-year-old age group," said H Cody Meissner, a pediatrician from Tufts University School of Medicine who did not take part in the study.

But while expensive stores turned in strong results, including a startling 15.6 percent increase at Saks Fifth Avenue, almost double what analysts had predicted, middle- and low-end stores were largely dependent on marked-down summer clothes for their increases.

But the startling increase in image quality as a result of the "Megapixel Wars" has gone beyond the point of being noticeable for most consumers.