The corporations controlling egg production feed an ever-larger number of chemicals to the birds to hide sickness and to further increase production.

In Shanghai, where ever-larger numbers of people now take odd jobs to supplement their incomes, keeping pace with Western trends is no longer an unthought-of luxury.

Welfare is a program disliked by taxpayers and recipients alike, one now sending ever-smaller checks to ever-larger numbers of families.

To move ever-larger numbers of people through airports, he said, requires a completely new system.

In the same area rabbits, sheep, and fish blinded by apparently ultraviolet-ray-induced cataracts are being found in ever-larger numbers.

With each passing year, fewer workers are paying ever-higher benefits to an ever-larger number of retirees.

Divers are coming in ever-larger numbers, with the number of diving centers growing from 6 in 1989 to 18 this year.

Even so, Haiti's poor continue to set sail, in ever-larger numbers.

In ever-larger numbers, they are growing up in broken homes, performing poorly in school and falling prey to alcohol and drug addiction.