"SPF 100 is not just an escalating numbers game," she said.
The atmosphere has been rarified further by escalating numbers of terrorist bombings — a la Iraq, a la Afghanistan.
Kill 850 people and save 5,692 others, still another says in a simultaneously funny and chilling litany of escalating numbers.
The escalating numbers on the dazzling surface of the light board could be counting them, a tally of Mr. McGregor's endless supply of ideas.
The strikes on Friday appeared to indicate that the United States was forging ahead with a tougher strategy to curb the escalating numbers of Taliban fighters crossing from Pakistan to attack American and NATO soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.
And yet nobody here can forget or ignore the escalating numbers of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, where the epidemic, apparently in check in Liberia and Guinea, is out of control in Freetown's western areas and Port Loko to the north.
The staggering, ever escalating numbers tell the real story: As long as it's up to Mr. Bush, the American presence in Iraq will be endless and ever more costly, diverting resources from other national priorities that are being ignored or shortchanged.
O'Mara referred to the escalating numbers of ticks, mosquitoes and other pests he's faced himself while taking his own young daughter out to hike, canoe and bird-watch.
