Sentence examples for gain in the number from inspiring English sources

One consequence of the growth in such theft has been a large gain in the number of fraud investigators.

The West was the only region of the country to record a gain in the number of starts in October.

That was triple the 10percentt gain in the number of all businesses in the country during that period, the most recent for which the Census Bureau has issued such data.

In 2004, Democratic Web sites were convinced that the polls were biased for President George W. Bush, saying they showed an implausible gain in the number of voters identifying as Republicans.

The rate dropped sharply, to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent, because the Labor Department's survey of households showed a large gain in the number of employed people in September.

While Democratic victories in the Midwest and the Southwest appeared likely to translate into a net gain in the number of governors' offices held by the party, Republican upsets in the South and the Northeast nearly offset those advances and may have preserved the Republican edge in control of the nation's statehouses.

Nearly all the gain in the numbers released today was in the non-Social Security part of the budget, and Mr. Clinton's aides said the surplus projection was driven up by a combination of the economy's strength and an expectation that at least some of the economic improvement would be long-lasting.

But both parties made gains in the number of states with single-party control.

The largest gains in the number of women in the executive branch occurred in the Clinton administration.

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles and Dallas, would have lost population over all in the 1990's were it not for big gains in the number of Hispanics, the researchers found.

One interesting aspect of all this is whether the government manages to maintain recent gains in the number of women in charge of departments.