Sentence examples for increase a number from inspiring English sources

When you wave your new contactless debit card (or, soon, your iPhone 6) over a retailer's card-reader, what you're really doing is instructing a computer to reduce a number stored in a ledger on your bank's hard drive and increase a number stored on the retailer's bank's ledger by a corresponding amount.

If you increase a number by one order of magnitude, you are multiplying the number by 10.

In case of sparse networks (e.g., Northern Canada and Russia, Antarctica region and coastal zone in polar regions), the adjunction of the GLONASS-based measurements, due to the different constellation configuration as compare to the GPS one, allows to noticeably extend areas covered by the GNSS measurements and essentially increase a number of the available ionospheric piercing points.

For the regions with the dense GNSS networks, the extra use of the GLONASS data would increase a number of the available measurements by a factor of 1.5 2 as comparing with GPS only for example, for the European region we can get ~1,700,000 1,800,000 IPPs per 1 h.

There is incorrect perception that anti-aging drugs would increase a number of people suffering with age-related diseases.

There was consensus amongst RAs and NHS smoking cessation service staff that, if the following problems with study procedures were remedied, the proportion of women interested in trial participation who actually enrolled should increase: A number of women were interested in study participation but did not have sufficient time to discuss this with the RA in the clinic.

Spending is increasing in a number of areas.

New technology is expected to increase that number a hundredfold.

A war would increase that number.

The order assigns an increasing number for a better condition.

That has emerged as the day that an increasing number of shoppers turn to the Internet.