Sentence examples for population soar from inspiring English sources

The decade of the 60's saw Moore's population soar.

Stuyvesant, a school of 3,200 students, has seen its Asian population soar to 70 percent, which inspired Mr. Blumm to start asking for volunteer interpreters.

But having seen America's prison population soar to more than 2.2 million, and with widespread prison overcrowding in California, Mr. Langley says he now believes the nation should be reconsidering which crimes should be punishable by imprisonment.

Its population soared in the past decade by 60percenttoto 20,069, according to the 2000 census.

Figures from the 2000 census show that New York City's population soared to a record high: 8,008,278.

In the era after the civil war, the US population soared (1860: 34 million; 1900: 73 million).

In the course of the 19th century, London's population soared from one million to six million.

Population soared, too, in distant suburban Kane, Will and McHenry Counties.

Until the 1970's, only about 2,000 people lived in Emeryville, although its daytime population soared to 25,000.

Between 1982 and 1995, the African-American prison population in California grew from 12,470 to 42,296; the Latino prison population soared from 9,006 to 46,080.

The total national prison population soared 19percentt during those four years; the number of H.I.V.-positive prisoners grew at a slower rate, 6percentt.