The event raised £59,000 for charity last year and organisers are hoping this year's figure will top that.

And in the first quarter, before the big new purchase plan was announced, the figure topped 200 percent.

Before an industry meltdown in 2001, the figure topped 12,000.

Though exact numbers are difficult to come by, the figure should top a few million by next year, he said.

Yes, they count every blossom in town, and the figure regularly tops the 5 million mark.

However, he states that it is doubtful the figure would top 100.

But since 1983 that figure has never topped 200,000, and in 2005, only 95,000 were sold.

He predicts that the final figure will top $1 billion.

It was the first time the programme's viewing figures had topped 1 million in 2007.

That figure tops all the others in a burst of sales this year.