Rises in Number or Size

Rises in number or size. 9 letters. Daily Express crossword puzzle last seen on 22 Augustus 2017.

The answer: INCREASES

Rises in number or size in sentence

Many of the hypotheses discussed above, especially on the effects of macro characteristics and on interactions of structural and individual characteristics, are about change. Sometimes these are long-term (unidirectional) changes – such as industrialization and modernization − and sometimes these are short-term changes – such as the growth and contraction of certain sectors, the rises in number or size of companies, variations in the extent of migration. Many of these hypotheses can be better tested with (historical) data that stretch over longer periods. In a sense eventhistory models of modern career data are also restricted by their inability to reach back further in time.