11.   The numbers would jump dramatically if legal prohibitions were removed, according to the poll published Thursday.

12.   The survey also suggested that the numbers could jump fairly rapidly.

13.   Their numbers also jumped in New Haven, Waterbury, New Britain, New London and Danbury.

14.   Then, two years later, after district lines have been redrawn and reelection prospects are more uncertain, the number of retirees jumps markedly.

15.   While the proportion of older prisoners has risen only slightly in recent years, their numbers have jumped substantially.

16.   Among the women, the number jumps to about a dozen.

17.   An untold number jumped from cliffs and swam back to Cuba proper while others tiptoed through the minefields that surround the base.

18.   But as communism crumbled, the numbers jumped.

19.   In southern Arizona, ranchers in the Douglas area started patrolling their properties in force when the number of illegal immigrants crossing into that region jumped dramatically.