1. In swelling numbers , men are putting their families first. 2. Indeed, the swelling numbers reveal the spreading trend. 3. Public, nonprofit hospitals expect to see a swelling number of indigent patients. 4. Arson-caused fires in the spring 1996, after their swelling numbers became too 5. And about 100 medics care for the swelling numbers of Haiti's poor. 6. The rage was further stoked by the swelling numbers of Kurdish militiamen erecting checkpoints and command posts. 7. The swelling numbers of English encouraged them to make greater demands for recognition with the colonial government. 8. They saw the rural members as backward and uneducated, and were angered by their swelling numbers . 9. She insists, as do her attorneys and a swelling number of supporters, that she is innocent. 10. Others sponsor demonstrations or support a swelling number of legal suits brought by victims demanding apologies and compensation.