The phrase "agreements have increased" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a rise in the number or frequency of agreements in a specific context, such as business or legal matters.
Example: "In the past year, agreements have increased significantly between the two companies, leading to a stronger partnership."
Alternatives: "the number of agreements has risen" or "agreements have grown in number."
Especially in the investment area, the collapse of mulilateral initiatives has led to bilateral "solutions" – the number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and investment chapters included in bilateral or small group free trade agreements has increased.
Given that grade has been shown by multiple independent groups to be prognostic and that the levels of inter-observer agreement have increased with the adoption of NGS, it is rather surprising that clinical practice has changed with molecular tests that have not been as comprehensively tested but has not changed with NGS.
The Paris Agreement has increased the incentive to verify reported anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with independent Earth system observations.
Last year's Paris climate change agreement has increased the urgency for the big manufacturers such as Ford, VW and Toyota to move more quickly, the report warns.
Markets, for one thing, tend to be spooked by uncertainty, and the debt-ceiling agreement has increased uncertainty by making it more likely that we'll see down-to-the-wire, default-risking negotiations in the future.
Also, with emissions from the United States, which is outside the agreement, having increased during the last decade and showing no signs of cutting back, worldwide emissions are expected to be above 1990 levels when the deadline for meeting the first Kyoto commitments passes in 2012.
Our previous trade agreements may have increased exports (good) but they have dramatically increased imports, costing us jobs, taxes, prosperity and risking entire key industries.
They claimed, without citation, that "there is no agreement that IQs have increased by 7 points".
