Recently, however, the number of people having bariatric surgery has spiked.

Disney was especially heartened to see the number of foreign visitors spike significantly late last year.

The numbers spiked sharply in 1988 and 1989; the population grew by 10,000 children each of those years.

According to Mr. Lilliestrom, their numbers may have spiked around 1110.

The number of tenure-tracked female faculty spiked from 150 in 1992 to 240 that year.

It's silly to say it cost us votes - my numbers spiked in the last night of our polling.

He does about 20 repairs a week, he said, but that number can spike in stormy weather and does not include custom-made umbrellas.

He concluded, among other things, that the number of those programs always spiked after the electoral wins by Democratic presidents.

The fact that every eleven years the number of ships missing in the area spiked.

"The number of offerings has really spiked in the past 60 days," he said.