1.   Just to make sure the strikers get the message, court proceedings are begun against the shop stewards for allegedly allowing picket numbers to swell above six.

2.   And those numbers swell every time a company unloads workers to protect profits.

3.   As the numbers in Korce swelled, another stream of terrified ethnic Albanian refugees was entering Albania by crossing south across the border from Montenegro.

4.   But as sure as the sun goes down, they will be back, and, come summer, their numbers will swell.

5.   But Bumpass says he believes their numbers are swelling.

6.   But for Rogan as well as for Bush, the prospects are for a considerably less conservative electorate when the numbers swell eight months hence.

7.   Economists warn that this number will swell as the government spends tens of billions to bail out its debt-ridden banks and corporations.

8.   Pretty soon the numbers were swelling.

9.   Their growing numbers are swelling school budgets.

10.   Their numbers are swelling, according to the industry trade group, Direct Selling Associationin Washington.