1.  Corporate bankruptcies increased last year.

2.  Our demand for consumer goods increases all the time.

3.  Sales increased last year despite the hostile economic environment.

4.  The number of homicides increased last year.

5.  Our yield of wheat increased this year.

6.  Applications increased a bit this year at some campuses, but only because of concerted recruiting and advertising drives.

7.  Beginning Thursday, the amount of possible sunshine increases at least nine minutes each day.

8.  Beginning Wednesday, the amount of possible sunshine increases at least nine minutes each day.

9.  Foreclosure activity increased last year in the Central Valley, although it is expected to drop there this year.

10.  Her popularity there increased ignominiously last spring, when young men and women started wearing counterfeit Anna Sui T-shirts that had flooded the market.