The phrase "waves of arrivals" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe a large number of people or things arriving at a location in stages or intervals. Example: The airport was bustling with waves of arrivals from all over the world, each group carrying different accents and cultures.
While much of the city's population growth in recent years has been fueled by the influx of immigrants and more people being born than dying, there have been new waves of arrivals from other parts of the country and fewer New Yorkers leaving.
Famine and persecution of Teo Chew Chinese from the Chaozhou area in present-day China led to several waves of arrivals, who settled near the Chao Phraya River, which today slices through the west of the city.
"They are cranking them out of the art schools and dropping them on the L train platform," said Eve Sussman, a video artist who first arrived in Williamsburg in 1992 and counts herself among the second wave of arrivals.
Fight the good fight On the march A family feud Turning Finnish ReprintsThe latest wave of arrivals confirms that the EU faces a challenge of unprecedented proportions.
"It's obvious that it's not something that's going to stop," said McRostie, of the wave of arrivals that have landed on Lesbos in recent weeks.
Now the entrenched had to share the spoils of chess with a new wave of arrivals, who were also exceedingly adept at the game.
They worry that an age-old urban pattern, where artists move into a desolate neighborhood and make it safer and more desirable, only to get pushed out by the next wave of arrivals, is playing out yet again.
The EU now wants to establish so-called quarantine zones for migrants on the Greek islands – but the government here already lacks the capacity to house the current wave of arrivals.
And while Boquete's real estate market was once dominated by porch-swinging retirees, the latest wave of arrivals tend to be younger couples in their 40s and 50s.
If so, they would be downtown's first sustained wave of arrivals since the early 1980s, when people began fleeing — though there were holdouts like Nathaniel Plotkin, a retired lawyer, who since 1975 has owned a 19th-century brick row house.
Some here believe the city must actively recruit new, young residents, playing off a natural wave of arrivals it has already seen among the young in recent years — of 20-something entrepreneurs, artists, musicians and those in search of cheap homes.
