Example sentences of "to increase with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Antarctic zooplankton is characterized by an almost complete absence of larvae of benthic animals , and surface layers are rich in individuals but poor in species ; numbers of species tend to increase with depth ( Knox , 1970 ) .
2 The temperature seems to increase with depth , reaching about 1000 K at about 300 km and about 2000 K at about 1000 km .
3 As with most occupational groups males were dominant , although the degree of domination tended to increase with skill level and with the incidence of unskilled labour ( Table 1.5 ) .
4 In pintails only the central tail feathers are elongated , so that although lift again fails to increase with length , tail area and thus drag rise only slowly .
5 Several of them — constipation , confusion , urinary incontinence and difficulty seeing and hearing — have been shown elsewhere to increase with age ( Cartwright , 1990a ) .
6 The narrowing of the arteries which can lead to angina and heart attacks tends to increase with age .
7 The importance attached to family relationships tends to increase with age .
8 If senescence is primarily due to late-acting deleterious mutations , then ( other things being equal ) one would expect the additive genetic variance for survival and fertility to increase with age .
9 Data from South Wales indicate that feelings of loneliness do seem to increase with age and are more common among women as compared with men .
10 However , it is clear that chronic health problems appear to increase with age .
11 This is because the prevalence of dementia seems to increase with age ( see below ) .
12 Although the precise rates vary , there is a clear trend for dementia prevalence to increase with age ( see Figure 5.2 ) .
13 Affective conditions such as depression do not seem to increase with age .
14 There is a clear trend for the number of older people reporting a home visit to increase with age from 18 per cent of those aged 65 — 69 to 62 per cent of those aged 85 + ( Figure 7.11 ) .
15 H pylori infection and seropositivity have been shown to increase with age , although the immunological responses , in general , may be reduced in the elderly .
16 Degree performance in arts and social sciences appears to increase with age , peaks in the 26–30 age group , and subsequently declines .
17 Because he wants the entropy to increase with time , the obvious conclusion would be that the wrong definition of entropy has been chosen and that it should be changed , but he decides instead to change the law of time evolution .
18 Thus disorder will tend to increase with time if the system obeys an initial condition of high order .
19 In this context , it may be relevant that the degree of baryon catastrophe seems to increase with metallicity ( indicating that cooling may be an important factor ) .
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