Sentence examples for and increase a number from inspiring English sources

When you wave your new contactless debit card (or, soon, your iPhone 6) over a retailer's card-reader, what you're really doing is instructing a computer to reduce a number stored in a ledger on your bank's hard drive and increase a number stored on the retailer's bank's ledger by a corresponding amount.

He also added government positions to reward his supporters and increased a number of their salaries, which drained the national budget.

Please also note the following: Given changing patterns in the number of graduate students in different programs and increasing numbers of undergraduates, an increasing number of graduate students are teaching in departments other than their home department.

Only increasing age and an increasing number of sentinel lymph nodes removed were significantly associated with an increasing incidence of axillary seroma.

Apparently, a large and increasing number of internet transactions are under $10, much of it in music.

South Korean leaders announce that Pyongyang has deployed a new missile and increased numbers of its elite forces.

"Since we have an increasing number of women in the workplace and an increasing number of elderly, it's logical that more men are care-giving," said Ms. Wagner, director of the gerontology program at Towson.

Just about everyone with a pulse has a mobile phone and an increasing number of us are getting smartphones.

And an increasing number are making a political statement.

And the licence fee depends on the possession of a television set, and an increasing number of especially younger people do not watch television on a television set.

As shown in Fig. 1, there has been a steady increase in the number of transplant centers and an increasing number of longterm survivors (Armitage, 1994).