1.   All the companies surveyed have increased their intelligence-gathering budgets substantially in the past five years ....

2.   Instead, we can expect companies to increase the size of the public relations screen used to hide what is going on.

3.   The company increased imports in order to cut domestic production costs.

4.   The company has increased the price of its cars.

5.   The company increased production to meet demand.

6.   The credit card company just increased the penalty on late payments.

7.   The company will increase its budget for marketing.

8.   It should be noted that there is possibly another option, that is for the company to increase its capacity.

9.   This combination of lower interest rates and a ready demand for their debt securities meant that British companies increased markedly their issues of sterling bonds.