Sales in each of those categories jumped by more than 40 percent from last year.

In the first four months of this year, prices jumped by 75 percent.

But the median home price jumped even more, by 174 percent, to $365,000, from 1990 to 2000.

He said his firm's inventory has jumped by 25 percent recently.

Personal income tax revenues jumped by 47 percent in 2001.

The cat population has jumped by almost 19 percent in the last five years.

Taxes were to jump anyway in 1995 by more than 10 percent.

China's oil imports jumped last year alone by 30 percent.

But the cost of student loans could jump by 20 to 30 percent.

During the first five months of the year gasoline jumped by 21.2 percent.