"It blew us away, " Andrew Pressnell, a nurse at the unit, said of the dramatic increase.
And then there is the dramatic increase in the numbers of non-teaching staff at so many of our colleges and universities.
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Add to this the dramatic increase in the use of live and streaming video, and the data traffic calculations become simply astronomical.
Before the dramatic increase in awareness of crimes against children in the 1980s, only a few high-profile cases grabbed the public's attention.
The art market must be a second derivative of the dramatic increase in the net worth of the 99.9th percentile both here and abroad.
Despite the dramatic increase in responsibilities brought about by the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act earlier this year, U.S. financial regulators still lack much needed increases in funding.
With the dramatic increase in professionally produced online content, mobile devices and Internet-enabled TVs that can stream video will support big winners in a new digital video ecosystem.
The dramatic increase in money supply here, in Europe, and Asia is likely to stimulate a recurrence of inflation pushing interest rates higher despite Federal Reserve promises to keep them low.
That claim is certainly questionable as applied to education, given the dramatic increase in the use of technology to prepare syllabuses, communicate with students and calculate grades, among many other education-related tasks.
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The CDC has published data showing the dramatic increase of type 2 diabetes in the US. There are now many sections of the country where more than 10% of the adult population is diabetic, a dramatic increase from just 5 years earlier.
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Consider the graph below, which shows that, in spite of the dramatic increase in the number of minutes per day of cell phone use in the U.S. since the late 1990s, the incidence of brain cancer has not increased and may have decreased slightly.
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Opponents of racial preferences also accuse the other side of double standards: on the one hand lamenting the decline of black and Latino enrolment since 1996, yet at the same time ignoring the dramatic increase in the number of Asians admitted during that period.
Since we last arrived in your home in June, we've gone up in size by 117 percent, the better to show off our new design (the work of creative director Sue Llewellyn) and our enhanced production values, in particular the dramatic increase in original photography.
And given that there is no evidence that, for example, the proportion of Japanese carrying the mitochondrial longevity gene has increased recently, changing circumstances are a more likely explanation for the dramatic increase in the numbers of the oldest old in the past 50 years.
The disease has led to a dramatic increase in the number of homeless children: perhaps 90, 000 live on Zambia's streets or in the bush, scratching a living by recycling broken bottles or through petty theft.
The past five years have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of adspend going from traditional media to online advertising.
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"One of the things we have seen is a dramatic increase in the divide between those who have and those who have not, " he said.
Indeed, it's Fey who has enjoyed the most dramatic score increase, from 355 Oct. 3 to 8, 290 by Oct. 16.
Since the credit crunch, there has also been a dramatic increase in the number of U.S. companies seeking EB-5 funding.
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The Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said he welcomes the figures as showing a "rapid and dramatic" increase in the numbers of new affordable homes being built.
The problem has become so vexing that the Treasury Department issued a rare advisory last year that warned American banks about "a dramatic increase in the smuggling of bulk cash proceeds from the sale of narcotics" and the "potential misuse of relationships with U.S. financial institutions by certain Mexican financial institutions, including Mexican casas de cambio, " or currency exchange houses (see diagram).
The result of that terrible recession was a dramatic increase in unemployment and a dramatic increase -- or an increase, rather, in the number of people who need assistance -- needed assistance.
As for the core business, Jain foresees a dramatic increase in global food prices in the next three years.
The result was a dramatic increase in office rents and expenses.
While sales are not a factor in the judges' decision, authors typically experience a dramatic increase in sales after receiving the prize.
Meanwhile, the UN rapporteurs on housing, water, sanitation and food rights said there had been a "dramatic increase" in the demolitions this year.
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of thyroid cancers and leukaemias, as well as birth defects, especially in Belarus.
To achieve a dramatic increase in the use of solar, wind and other renewables, we need energy networks that concentrate, transport (and someday store) this power.
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This represents a dramatic increase in the power of encryption programs that will find their way into the hands of hostile powers, international terrorists and other foreign criminal elements -- and will add dramatically to the time and computing power required by U.S. intelligence to monitor their activities.
One of the most striking figures is a dramatic increase in imports of mobile telephones ownership of which was once considered a crime.
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