11.   Kobayashi said the ministry hopes that domestic demand --hence, imports -- will increase after the government carries out economic-stimulus measures.

12.   Price, in particular, is on the hot seat because his playing time is expected to increase after four years as a backup.

13.   Some stars demand and receive increases even after their last film or two has failed.

14.   That figure is expected to increase after Bell, a unit of BCE Inc., recently started offering its long-distance customers five free hours of Internet access.

15.   The figures also show that price increases after four weeks of trading shrank in April to about one-quarter as great as at the peak in February.

16.   The patients who dropped out, they said, did so gradually over the year of the study, without a sudden increase after six months.

17.   The publishing magnate even recruited a Houston woman to appear in a television commercial criticizing the governor for proposing a sales tax increase after his promise not to.

18.   The rise in third-quarter GDP was the second straight increase after four quarters in which the economy shrank.

19.   The three-member board of the authority could imposed an increase after hearings.

20.   They are expected to show the first year-over-year profit increase after five straight declining quarters.