Sentence examples for population soars from inspiring English sources

In winter, the Hamptons are desolate and whipped by northerly storms; in summer, the population soars to 100,000, five times its off-season size.

London could see riots again unless more trains and buses are provided at affordable fares for the poorest communities as the population soars, the city's transport commissioner has warned.

In summer, when the island's population soars from 15,000 to 75,000, locals like Jan Buhrman have to make a year's living in just a few short months.

These schools recognize that if the female population soars above 60percentthethe character of the college radically changes, most notably in terms of intercollegiate sports, which are a critical tool in fund-raising.

That is far less eye-catching than a headline screaming that the foreign-born population "soars by 565,000 .Even so, voters' concern about immigration roughly tracks the rise and fall of net migration (see second chart).

Especially at busy ski weekends (when Vail's population soars from its usual 7,000 to something nearer 35,000), cars would be backed up for nearly half an hour.

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.

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