The number of children on public assistance has gone up by nearly 300 percent in the past 30 years.

The number of minority students at independent schools is going up.

Even more important, the number of those on the street is going up.

I kept hearing about how his numbers were going up.

"The number shouldn't go up until the services are in place."

The numbers are going up with the Island's need for workers.

The first number in a series - the one, for example - goes up.

When that number goes up in the new Times building, energy use will go down.

The number of missing had gone up 465 since Sunday night, to 5,422.

By 1993, that number had already gone up to 275, and in 1996, it reached 1,000.