Sentence examples for population swelling from inspiring English sources

A persistently high crime rate, and new minimum sentences, keep the jail population swelling.

Galena soon became one of the busiest ports on the Mississippi River, its population swelling to about 14,000.

In the years after, Asian-American life changed enormously, with the population swelling from less than one per cent of all Americans, in 1960, to nearly six per cent, or 19.5 million, today.

5.TEACHING With 375,000 teachers retiring between 1999 and 2009, and the K-12 student population swelling to 55 million by 2010, schools are counting on older workers entering the profession to help fill the gap.

More typically, The Times chronicled the great changes in the city as the 19th century moved toward its close: the Dickensian gloom fading as arc lamps replaced gaslight on Broadway, a new elevated train rumbling up Third Avenue, the Brooklyn Bridge being constructed high over the East River and New York's population swelling with immigrants and a host of social and economic problems.

Between 1971 and 1981, as the islands found its population swelling by 37% with the oil rush, Shetland built 1,000 new homes chiefly to house the first generation of oil workers, many recruited to construct and staff the vast Sullom Voe oil terminal, borrowing £50m to do so.

But with the ultra-Orthodox (who get religious exemptions) and Arab populations swelling, and qualms growing among the secular centre, the institution that has traditionally been Israel's melting pot is slowly becoming less and less so.

But with Muslim populations swelling throughout Europe and the business of religiously approved goods booming, the question of how to regulate such products is becoming more urgent.In this section The voucher business A meaty question Little steps ReprintsAmerica has been battling with this issue for decades.

In 2010, Manhattan's daytime population was swelling to 3.94 million, with commuters adding a net 1.48 million people to the population, along with visitors, tourists, and commuting students.

Property values are up, the residential population is swelling and foot traffic is growing.

General Miller said that when he came to Iraq in August, the insurgency was picking up, and the Abu Ghraib prison population was swelling.