Most departments get anywhere from one to four new members over an entire year.

Deciding how much money each department will get calls for tough decisions.

Since then, the department has been getting such reports at a rate of more than 200 a month.

At the time, the department was only getting one or two referrals from Chinese people every year.

His boss and the department are getting him a large cake.

In the budget that began July 1, 1988, by contrast, the department got a 16.69 percent increase over the previous year.

Even so, the department got a black eye out of it.

Or, the department may get around to it on its own.

For the first time, the department is getting noise meters.

In the first three months of this year, the department got only 14 complaints.