Each represented an increase of nearly 25 percent over last year.

The final 1999 figure represented an increase of 5.5 percent from the $205.2 billion spent in 1998.

The 1992 total represented an increase of 2.4 percent from 1991.

The change from 1980 to 1990 alone represented a 300 percent increase in the city's population.

The figure represented an 18 percent increase from the period a year earlier.

Police officials could not say, however, whether that figure represented an increase over the same period a year ago.

That represented an increase of 41 percent over the last two years.

The total represents a record amount and an increase of $3 million over 2003.

That represented an increase of 30,000 from the week before.

The amount represents an increase of about 41 percent since 1996.