Sentence examples for total continued to climb from inspiring English sources

Despite not making the team, Killebrew's home run total continued to climb, and by the end of July he had Jimmie Foxx and Mickey Mantle career marks in his sights; he went on to pass both in August.

Meanwhile, Somalia's civilian death toll continued to climb.

The death toll continued to climb this week.

Even as Southwest's numbers continued to climb, total passenger volume at Islip slipped in March to 175,801, down from 196,553 a year earlier.

Through 2004, total revenues for the genomics sector continued to climb, and in 2004 generated approximately $6.3 billion in revenues, with a combined net income of negative $2.5 billion.

2013 marked the first year ever (since data was available in 2002) that the total number of charities had dropped, however the number of participants and the amount of funds raised continued to climb.

While the nation's job total peaked in December, 2007, the city continued to climb right through the summer of 2008.

But the total number of laid-off workers drawing unemployment benefits has continued to climb, hitting a nine-year high at 3.21 million.

Mortgage defaults have continued to climb.

Spanish yields continued to climb today.

Crime levels would have continued to climb.