Sentence examples for an astonishing increase from inspiring English sources

"This survey shows an astonishing increase in the hours that teachers are working on Michael Gove's watch.

The common core, adopted by 45 states, demands an astonishing increase in testing, far more than needed and far more than the already excessive amount required by No Child Left Behind.

The continued increase in consumption, backed by a high oil price, has led to an astonishing increase in imports (up 40% a year), but it no longer stimulates the domestic economy.

During the last 50 years this situation has been completely transformed by the introduction of sophisticated numerical algorithms and an astonishing increase in the available computational power, with the consequence that aerodynamic design is now carried out largely by computer simulation.

This astonishing increase was a reflection of the extraordinary economic circumstances of early 16th-century Rome and the unprecedented rise in the status of artists.

Since 2008, when Google first reported takedowns, the site has seen an astonishing 550,000,000% increase in requests: that year, it received just 68.

Accompanying this rise in abuse is an astonishing 350percentt increase in the total number of opiate prescriptions dispensed in the United States between 1991 and 2007.

Studies show that the typical high school graduate will obtain higher employment and earnings — an astonishing 50 percent to 100 percent increase in lifetime income — and will be less likely to draw on public money for health care and welfare and less likely to be involved in the criminal justice system.

Liberal Democrat councillor Hazel Watson said recommended increases for the leader and deputy leader were already unacceptable and then the Conservative group went further "in forcing through an astonishing 60% increase for both".

The biggest demographic rise was among girls, ages 10 to 14, who saw an astonishing 200percentt increase in suicide rates over the last several decades.

They all reflect the astonishing increase in global interdependence.