It said sales were increasing in terms of local currencies in most major markets around the world.
Then, they were fearful of the future: droughts were increasing in severity and their cattle were dying.
Permanently comatose patients, maintained by mechanical ventilators, were "increasing in numbers over the land and there are a number of problems which should be faced up to".
When I was offered the job, no one I asked had heard of such a contract before, though they were increasing in use.
As capitalism and ideas of democracy burgeoned, so did the middle classes, which were increasing in numbers and influence.
Following a 2-2 draw, the third replay ended in a pulsating 3-3 dras as unusually the games were increasing in intensity and drama as the series continued.
There is a human cost too - WCS reports that on 31 March, a guard was killed by armed rebels in an ambush in Kahuzi-Biega national park, the only site where the study found the gorillas were increasing in number.
He added that the problems with alcohol abuse were increasing in the UK and, in just the past decade, he had seen a huge increase in alcohol-related illnesses.
Their endorphin levels were increasing in response, and both their pain thresholds and their general sense of amiable enjoyment were on the rise.
