1.   Higher insurance costs will make it harder to afford coverage, swelling the numbers of uninsured.

2.   The numbers were swelled with the arrival of a back-up group who marched from the centre of Oxford.

3.   And the advertising swelled the numbers of adults on Medicaid, too.

4.   Each year exhibition catalogs swell the number of art books on bookstore shelves.

5.   Some people travel incessantly to swell the numbers on their life lists.

6.   The new funds from Baring Asset Management, GT Management Plc, and Mercury Asset Management swell the number of pan-African funds from five to eight.

7.   Anxiety and hysteria-like reactions also could have swelled the number of people who sought treatment after the attacks.

8.   City officials fear proposals by the administration of Gov. William F. Weld could swell the number of people living on streets this winter.

9.   Falling birth rates and a shrinking labor force to support swelling numbers of elderly may force governments to relax immigration controls in the future, the report said.