'the number surged' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a dramatic increase in the amount of something. For example, "The number of people affected by the virus surged over the course of the summer."
Today the two women send anywhere from 60 to 80 orders a week, with the number surging during the holiday season -- a three-pound pork roll apparently looks just perfect atop a blue spruce.
If one or more drugs are also substrates for drug transporters, where genetic polymorphism and hence three different gene expressions are possible, the number surges to 81 (3).
But when control efforts ended, the numbers surged back up and malaria was endemic once more.
That figure compares with about 7,500 who came in annually before the numbers surged to 13,625 last year and about 25,000 in the current year.
Only about 12percentt of the population supported legal pot in 1969, but that number surged until the "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign gained traction in the 1980s.
The agency recorded a 48 per cent jump in migrant arrivals between 2012 and 2013, the numbers surging because of the civil war in Syria and the political chaos in Libya, which has allowed the human smuggling networks to flourish.
The sentiment was often pronounced in a square where the protesters' numbers surged through the day.
While both Mac numbers and iPod numbers beat Wall Street analysts' estimates, the iPhone numbers surged past what many were looking for.
Small tortoiseshell numbers rose by 388% compared to 2012 with the peacock coming a surprise third in the count after its numbers surged by more than 3,500%.
In 2013, Democrats' numbers surged during the government shutdown, before plunging in the aftermath of Obamacare implementation.
