Sentence examples for were spikes in from inspiring English sources

Other "signals to be vigilant for," it said, were spikes in school absenteeism and surges in hospital visits.

Considerably worse were spikes in both hate crimes and air-conditioning failures, record system-wide overcrowding, the looming shutdown of the indispensable L train, and — salt in the wound — a fare hike, effective next month.

He told me that his company realized that they could predict the location of impending massacres in the Congo, because there were spikes in the sale of prepaid phone cards.

Belsky and McCue studied housing downturns from 1980 to 2004 and discovered that the most likely cause of housing price declines were spikes in unemployment.

It should instead emphasize public outcomes and results -- whether there were spikes in food-borne illness -- rather than programmatic activities.

Mixtures were spiked in triplicate in the range of LOQ and 10 LOQs.

Known amount of IP and PX were spiked in real samples.

Cry proteins were spiked in soils, and the amount of protein adsorbed was measured over 24 h.

TiO2 NPs were spiked in 34 lake and 5 brackish water samples at an initial concentration of 10 mg L−1.

When equal numbers of S. aureus and Y. enterocolitica were spiked in milk samples, the individual detection limit was determined to be 103 cfu ml−1 milk.

Internal controls were spiked in to control for proper hybridization, washing and scanning.