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The phrase "increased year on year" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a pattern of growth or change that happens consistently year after year. Example: The company's profits have increased year on year, showing steady growth over the past five years. Another example: The city's population has been increasing year on year, leading to a need for more housing and infrastructure.
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This has increased year on year, for the past four years.
Lending – a key part of the Merlin deal – barely increased year on year.
In that time the number of complaints has increased year on year.
In the past year 32,000 applicants have been supported and the average payment has increased year on year".
The number of people in need of aid have increased year on year, with nearly 100 million people targeted for 2017.
The number of former teachers returning to the classroom has increased year on year – further evidence of the popularity of the profession," a DfE spokesperson said.
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The annual totals of cases among those reporting travel to Thailand also increased year-on-year with 21 in 2011 and 58 in 2012.
The results maintain the trend seen in the previous quarter, when Google bucked the market by posting increased year-on-year profits.
The number of cases of religious or ritualistic abuse of children reported to Scotland Yard has increased year-on-year over the past decade.
The report, which was based on interviews with 5,200 adults, found the number of women saving nothing at all increased year-on-year from 23% in 2011 to 26% today.
The news that giving by the UK's top 300 charitable foundations has increased year-on-year to £2.5bn is a welcome chink of light amid the gloom of public sector spending cuts.
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