Sentence examples for bump in the number from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, there is a modest bump in the number of apartments listed for sale the week after Labor Day.

A parallel, though less dramatic, shift over the past two years is a bump in the number who say that winning in Iraq is crucial to victory in the campaign against terrorism.

The New York Times poll documents a slight bump in the number of people who say that they or members of their immediate family have been the victim of a crime in the city in the last year.

Oh, one other detail: A poll that concluded the night after Pat spoke gave President Bush a 10-point bump in the number of voters who strongly supported him.

Recent surveys showing a large bump in the number of people near and at "retirement age" who expect to work for years to come reflect not just the hope of staying active, but a widespread fear of running out of money long before they run out of years.

Out of every three additions to the ranks of the unemployed in the past year, one was Californian.Some of this can be blamed on a bump in the number of people entering the labour market, some of them from far afield.

The conservative urbanists at City Journal can point to this or that bump or burp in the numbers, but since the nineties New York has kept lowering both its incarceration rate and its crime rate.

"The real change is the heightened understanding, the heightened interest of that community — there has been a bump in the numbers of the Vietnamese in the school board and City Council," said Adam D. Probolsky, a Republican political strategist.

More directly to the point, we've consistently seen that companies who cut R&D may have a bump in the numbers for a bit, but ultimately they have to return to what made them strong in the first place -- innovation.

Despite the recent bump in shootings, the number of homicides pale in comparison with the number of killings during the early 2000s and especially the early to mid-1990s, when L.A. County had about 2,000 homicides some years.

The NPD Group's Checkout Tracking purchase monitor provided the data, analyzing customer spending and overall number of receipts, and found that there was also a 6percentt bump in the overall number of purchases made by Echo owners on Amazon.com when compared to their pre-Echo existence.