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increasing

If something is increasing, it is growing bigger. He is worried about his increasing debt: it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

increasing

becoming greater or larger increasing prices music

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Simple sentences

The number of Japanese going overseas has been increasing year by year.
Because of the increasing risk of complications the doctor decided to induce labor.
The number of students going abroad to study is increasing each year.
Scientists will come up with new methods of increasing the world's food supply.
Demand for imported cars is increasing due to lower prices.
Generally speaking, savings are increasing.
Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.
The urban population in most developing countries is increasing very fast.
This town is increasing in population.
This city has been increasing in population year after year.
Alcohol consumption is increasing every year.
According to a recent study, the average life span of the Japanese is still increasing.
The number of students going overseas has been increasing lately.
The number of students who travel abroad for vacation is increasing.
The number of people who smoke is increasing, so cancer will soon be the most common cause of death.
The urban population of America is increasing.
Traffic accidents are increasing year by year.
Since women are taking on more responsibilities at work and in the community, it is said that the number of women with stress from both child-rearing and work is increasing.
The population is increasing.
The population of the world is increasing so rapidly that it will be doubled within forty years.
Statistics show that the population of the world is increasing.
The number of murders is increasing even in a country like Japan.

Movie subtitles

Chest compliance improving, tidal volumes increasing.
The beat is increasing.
In the meanwhile, the supply of good alcohol fails to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for liquor.
So, I must, therefore, attribute your refusal of me to your wish of increasing my love by suspense!
From her heart has come an ever-increasing flow of virtue and moral blessing.
That crime was increasing and honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail.
Increasing the humidity was a good idea.
Listen, miss, I admire poker, but you're increasing the odds.
But the wind is increasing. I was about to reduce sail.
Tell Regiment the enemy artillery fire is increasing.
Japs' buildup is increasing.
World population is increasing at the rate of 25 million a year.
The time limit being 8 pm on Sunday 17th December but prohibiting in accordance with the articels of the 13th Hague Convention, any repairs with the purpose of increasing the fighting strength of the vessel.
When the telephone and telegraph systems failed and the radio networks had to bear the burden alone, they succumbed to interference originating from an increasing disturbance in the sun.
But if that's the case, then entropy must also be increasing somewhere else.
Increasing production, eh?
Gentlemen our joy is mixed with sorrow as we celebrate the fiftieth year at this university of a man who has devoted his whole life to increasing human knowledge. Our dear Dean, Professor Henri Faust.
But the wind is increasing.
As a matter of fact, I believe it's increasing.
Range increasing to 1,500 miles, sir.
Increasing range to 2,000 miles, sir.
There's no other answer. - Try increasing the power.
From both East and West, men are finding an ever-increasing need for those roads.
I'm sure Yamana's increasing the patrols at the Hayakawa border.
Radioactivity increasing.
Considering the ever increasing ravage, caused by tramps and looters, I enact to the farm-houses and villages, to set up permanent guards, to protect their values, against the common threat.
Today's agenda is solely on the subject of increasing circulation.
Buffeting increasing.
No buffeting, trim correct, increasing speed.
Increasing speed.
A time of steadily increasing prosperity and progress.
You're speaking of the increasing consumption of our material?
And what we spent kept increasing.
Acceleration increasing.
The radiation is increasing.
Its characteristic was an ever-increasing inflation of the death penalty.
His complaints are increasing.
Increasing to max 4.

News and current affairs

Despite increasing incomes, Russians are less educated and less healthy than they were when Putin came to power; they still die at a shockingly young age.
Second, short-term interest rates were so low that additional cuts would spook the financial markets: if even the Fed thought conditions warranted cuts, the argument went, businesses would respond not by increasing their investments but by reducing them.
It is during the war after the war that the occupier's inferiority is revealed, with constant reinforcements increasing the number of targets for the insurgents far more quickly than the occupier can adapt to the changing battlefield.
One prescription that is bandied about with increasing frequency certainly sounds sensible: the world should drastically cut the amount of greenhouse gases that it pumps into the atmosphere each day.
This would require increasing investments in energy research and development for new and improved technologies - a process that needs to be supported by stronger public-private partnerships.
Increasing risk aversion is leading economic agents to adopt a wait-and-see stance that makes the slowdown partly self-fulfilling.
It has been claimed that foreign investors are purchasing land that has been left idle; thus, by bringing it into production, the purchases are increasing the availability of food overall.
NEW YORK - In the aftermath of the Great Recession, countries have been left with unprecedented peacetime deficits and increasing anxieties about their growing national debts.
But the long-term prognosis - made especially dire by health-care reform's inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs - is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, the disintegration of Iraq's and Syria's borders, and increasing Chinese assertiveness in the South and East China Seas, the post-Cold War era appears to have ended in 2014.
But even as short-term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed-rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing.
As other societies grapple with their own increasing diversity, they may follow the US into crisis.
Romney supports gradually increasing retirement ages, a premium-support model for Medicare, and shifting Medicaid (health insurance for the poor) to the states via block grants.
School districts are increasing class sizes as they shed teachers, as well as deferring maintenance projects and curtailing the school-bus service.
Meanwhile, Latin American businesses have been increasing their own foreign investments.
Wangari is one of thousands of urban workers in Kenya - and one of hundreds of thousands, even millions, across Africa - who are increasing their incomes through absentee agriculture.
Interestingly, the frequency with which Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women has been increasing.
America's president is captive to the country's labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
Many of the actions of the American administration, and much of the US government's rhetoric, may actually be increasing the threat from nuclear weapons rather than making the world safer.
But lower short-term interest rates have led to higher medium-term interest rates, which are more relevant for the mortgage market, perhaps because of increasing worries about inflationary pressures.
The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin - for example, by reducing dependence on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of crude.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.
Before it began rising last year, the US household saving rate had been declining for more than 20 years in response to the increasing level of household wealth.
An increasing number of Latin American countries have elected left-wing presidents who criticize market reforms and globalization.
This is a crucial change, and it is the fundamental reason for an increasing number of genuine news items and commentaries in China's media today.

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