11.   Both figures are big increases over the estimates given a year ago by Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp. when they announced plans to combine.

12.   A review of the national debt statement will show a modest increase over the past year.

13.   Business was so good during the quarter that some securities firms are reporting increases over second quarter earnings in spite of the usual seasonal slowdown in August.

14.   But even before Headline News was remade, it was showing increases over last year.

15.   But the charities that serve them and the social scientists who study them say there has been a steady increase over the last decade.

16.   But steady and sharp increases over the past year are finally forcing them to pass on the higher costs.

17.   But the pledge is not an increase over this year.

18.   But while the overall incidence dropped, certain cancers and certain populations showed marked increases over the same period.

19.   Can you list the increases over the years?

20.   Cancer-fighting drugs and ophthalmic products also contributed to the sales increase over the period a year earlier.