The phrase "are increasing in the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing trends or changes that are happening in a specific area or context.
Example: "The number of electric vehicles are increasing in the automotive industry, reflecting a shift towards sustainable transportation."
Alternatives: "are rising in the" or "are growing in the".
Today, Americans are increasing in the peleton so they can retain their identities.
Reports of children being sexual exploited are increasing in the UK, according to Barnardo's.
A9 SCIENCE/HEALTH West Nile on Rise in Arizona Outbreaks of the West Nile virus are increasing in the Southwest.
With the coming G8 and Nato summit meetings, the allusions to Chicago '68 are increasing in the media.
The giant panda's numbers are increasing in the wild, so I don't see them dying out, and I haven't heard anything to suggest that other biodiversity isn't thriving equally.
"The sex hormones and especially testosterone are increasing in the boy's body, and that's what's making the testes start to grow and that's going to have an effect on the boy's behavior," Dr Herman-Giddens said.
The finding, in the March issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, fits well with recent theories about how humans fight off lung pathogens like the tuberculosis bacterium and why rates of asthma are increasing in the industrialized world.
Incidences of sinkholes are increasing in the UK, while the issue has proved deadly in the US where, in 2013, the sleeping body of Florida resident Jeffrey Bush, 36, was swallowed up by a 20ft sinkhole which opened up within his bungalow.
It hasn't gone from everywhere, but it's gone from many places; in a curious development, its numbers are steadily increasing in Scotland, but no one knows why the figures are increasing in the North, any more than why their numbers are declining down in the South.
Opioids abuse and related deaths are increasing in the world.
When traffic load becomes heavy, the queued packets are increasing in the bottleneck queue.
