"violations increased" is a perfectly correct and usable sentence in written English.
You can use it anytime to emphasize that something went up in number or severity. For example, "Years of poor hygiene practices led to violations increased by over 40%".
As a result, the number of people sent back to prison for parole violations increased seven-fold from 1980 to 2000.
Observing that the number of smog violations increased in New York State to 205 last summer from 80 in 1996, he predicted that this summer would be as bad or worse than last year for those sensitive to ozone.
The violations increased suspicion that the Chinese toy industry, which supplied 80% of the toys sold in the U.S., was not adequately enforcing safety standards and prompted calls in the U.S., Canada, and other countries for increased regulation.
Mr. Lesko said that fines collected townwide for building code and other property upkeep violations increased to $356,395 from June to December 2009, up from $131,765 for the same period the year before.
The main reasons the prison population has increased even as crime has declined, the report said, are that the number of inmates returned to prison for parole violations increased, the length of the average sentence rose, and drug crimes, which are not included in the overall crime rate computed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, did not drop.
Similarly, Khattak and Luo [8] showed that group violations increased in the presence of young children.
A statement on the WADA website read: "The present draft (of the WADA code) substantially strengthens the sanctions for serious violations, increasing from two years to four years the penalties, for example, for the use of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, masking agents, trafficking and prohibited methods.
Those violations increase slowly starting from approximately second 5 until they sharply go up when the specified minimum interarrival time is undershot.
Among other changes, the law would bring more scrutiny to mines with "patterns of violations," increase the criminal penalties against unsafe mines and enhance protections for mine whistleblowers like Howard.
A survey of patients attending an Australian ED suggests that nearly 50% of patients perceive a violation to privacy in some form and that the likelihood of experiencing a privacy violation increased with time spent in ED [30].
The average annual number of both warning letters and notices of violation increased during the first three years of the Obama administration to 145.3 warning letters and 31.7 notices of violation.
