Its increase can also indicate the poor quality of a target sand.

The increase in the literacy rate over the past few years indicates that the initiatives taken by the state government have been found productive.

A strong increase in factory jobs indicated a fresh, long-awaited source of economic growth.

A sudden or unexplained increase in water use can indicate a leak.

An increase in light indicated that we were nearing a clearing.

The increase in testing by the city, sharp as it is, indicates how remote such goals remain.

A painful increase in air pressure indicated that a large amount of water had entered the submarine.

It said the smaller increase still indicated persistent underlying inflation.

By 1939 an increase in patient admissions indicated that a new hospital would need to be built.

But the steady increase in retail revenues last year indicates that strategy is working.