51.   The Serbian crackdown has swollen the ranks of the militants, who control a large part of western Kosovo.

52.   The weak economy is also playing a role by pushing unemployment to postwar highs and swelling the ranks of the homeless, creating a growing breeding ground for disease.

53.   Their ranks could be swelled by people who bought tickets at inflated, black market prices.

54.   When workers and others swelled the ranks to about a million, party leaders feared they would be swept aside and struck back.

55.   He will enter the Lords this autumn along with a group of successful figures from the world of politics and industry chosen to swell the ranks of working peers.

56.   This would further swell the ranks of those living below the poverty line.

57.   Other measures to swell the ranks will be the reductions in leave allocations and the time conscripts are allowed to defer service.

58.   The Bosnian Serbs had previously called for expatriates to swell army ranks in June.

59.   The ICFTU ranks were swelled by representatives from various Belgian union federations.