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an increase of 5% <a 5% increase> in the cost of living
a considerable <major/marked/significant/substantial/modest/small/sharp/steady/sixfold/overall> increase
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[see also: enhance, grow, raise]
Obviously, Gn increases to G as n→∞.
Sales increased almost fourfold in this period.
The budget has increased by more than a third.
We adopt the convention that the first coordinate i increases as one goes downwards, and the second coordinate j increases as one goes from left to right.
The index increases by 1 when the path is crossed from right to left.
The numbers inserted in L must increase strictly down each column.
Also, F does not increase distances.
There has recently been increasing interest in the theory of......
It becomes impracticable to compute the zeros of F for degrees greater than 6; in any event, deciding whether the divisors found in this way represent irreducible curves becomes increasingly difficult.
Indeed, as n increases, it becomes increasingly rare for a manifold to be a hyperplane section of another projective manifold.