Sentence examples for shocking increase from inspiring English sources

One effect of this has been a shocking increase in the use of food banks.

Ms. Pillay also expressed concern about the "dramatic and shocking increase" in Iraq's resort to the death penalty.

Mr Lamb said: "This shocking increase is a damning indictment of the Government's complacency when it comes to the sexual health of our children.

Marjorie Wallace, from the mental health charity Sane, said she had witnessed a "startling and shocking increase" in the number of young people who self-harm.

"But what it does is it solves the huge immediate problem of the anxiety and fear that commuters have over the shocking increase in fares and the prospect of widespread service cuts".

A Guardian analysis of newly released government figures has revealed a shocking increase in the proportion of ethnic minority children and young people being held in the youth justice system.

For decades, autism's focus has centered mostly on young children, with shocking increases in prevalence announced on a regular basis.

On Thursday, 58percentt of California was declared under exceptional drought, the most severe classification and a shocking 22percentt increase from the previous week.

It turned a single $50,000 sale, into a sale worth $80,000 almost overnight (a shocking 60% increase).

Eastern Europe as a whole experienced  a shocking 1,300 per cent increase in prevalence of HIV infection between 1996 and 2001 - occurring within a context of social unrest, widening inequality and a major expansion of drug trafficking networks.

Then this weekend brought another shocking government proposal to increase its own power and weaken the restraints upon it.