Sentence examples for number of fares from inspiring English sources

João, a taxi driver, notes a clear uptick in the number of fares since the tournament kicked off.

The number of fares it might offer on a single flight, for instance, is increasing to as many as 15, from the current 8.

In the same period, the number of fares has not risen; indeed, with the addition of thousands of radio cars in the Wall Street area and other prime locations, business is, if anything, down.

It has also increased, to 15, the number of fares it might have on any one flight, nearly double the old number, allowing it to compete more effectively against hub-and-spoke carriers that list as many as 26 fares.

The increased cab demand in bad weather increases the number of fares per hour, so cab drivers reach their target sooner, and go off duty.Economists consider such a strategy irrational.

As a result, she said, at any given time there are more taxis on the road than a year ago and, while the total number of fares may be fairly constant, each driver ends up with a smaller piece of the pie.

The number of fare combinations is thus 30 times 30 times 30 times 30, which equals 810,000.

From January to June of this year, the number of fare-evasion citations issued more than doubled from the year before, with almost 6,000 tickets issued in that six-month period.

Unlike in New York and Boston, where consistent maps and signage aid navigation and a single fare card generally takes riders all over the city, passengers in the Bay Area juggle multiple maps, timetables and a bewildering number of fare combinations, said Randy Rentschler, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the region's transportation planning and finance agency.

"There have been a number of fare wars so far this summer, but at one point the airlines are going to call each other up, which is something they shouldn't do, and say 'What are we, crazy?' and fares are going to go back up again," says trend analyst Arnold Brown of Weiner, Edrich, Brown in New York.

In fact, the number of fare hikes imposed by airlines actually declined over the past three years.