Sentence examples for number has leapt from inspiring English sources

For example, in 2011, 8% of Haitians (about 800,000 people) were living with chronic malnutrition; now, that number has leapt to 1.52 million.

That number has leapt by £33bn in the past six months alone, making pensioners who own their homes outright £7,117 richer on average, purely from property.

No reason was given explaining why they have renounced their citizenship, but the number has leapt since 2010, when Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.Sweden's central bank surprised markets by cutting its main interest rate to -0.1%, joining just a handful of countries with negative rates.

It found that the number had leapt to 56 million from 34 million in the last three decades.

In the 1980s there were as few as 3,000 Swat raids a year, but by around 2005 that number had leapt to 45,000.

In the past 20 years, handsome lime-stoned buildings have been polished and restored, the riverfront has been turned into an esplanade, the pedestrianised city centre is buzzing with cafes, and a sleek tram system sweeps residents and visitors – whose numbers have leapt from 2 to 6 million in the past five years – across 40km of the city and its suburbs.

But with rapid growth in leisure-hospitality, their numbers have leaped from 6.4% of nonfarm employees in 1966 to 9.4% today.

The German Golf Federation reports that in two decades the number of courses has doubled to more than 750 and the number of golfers has leapt to more than 550,000.

The number of biennials has leapt from 30 to 100 in the last two decades in areas diverse as Tirana and Athens.

The official toll of dead and missing has risen to 133,653, while the number of injured has leapt from 1,403 to 19,359.

Universities like Delaware, where the number of Chinese students has leapt to 517 this year, from 8 in 2007.