Sentence examples for grow by two from inspiring English sources

If Democrats win the Senate, choose a Democratic lieutenant governor and keep control of the State House, as is expected, the party would have greater influence over redistricting for a Congressional delegation that could grow by two seats.

If nearly decade-long trends endure, Texas will gain as many as four Congressional seats and Florida's delegation will grow by two, while New York and Ohio will lose two seats each, said Andrew A. Beveridge of Queens College of the City University of New York.

Obama can afford to drop to Kerry's white margins because, between 2008 and 2012, the pro-Democratic minority share of the electorate is expected to grow by two percentage points and the white share to decline by the same amount, reflecting the changing composition of the national electorate.

The average auroral arc intensity is found to grow by two exponential stages.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Friday that class sizes could grow by two or three children, and Bloomberg said elementary schools in poor neighborhoods would be affected the most.

The Daily Telegraph said: "Ten years ago, a tiny campaign group captured the headlines with a startling prediction that net immigration to the UK would grow by two million over the next decade.

California, Florida and Georgia all saw their populations grow by six figures.

For much of Tuesday night, it felt like that tiny club might grow by one.

And the 500 home run circle, which has only 17 members, can easily grow by four this season.

However with an estimated billion people are clinically obese, another billion seriously malnourished, and the global population expected to grow by two billion to nine billion by 2050, it is beyond dispute that the status quo is not sustainable.

Altogether, our staff of politics reporters will grow by five early this year.