The numbers shot back up to 20,000 and then to 30,000 or more on the weekend.

I had barely finished the story when a number of hands shot up.

This increased the number of American aircraft shot down to 18.

The number of other coalition planes shot down stood at 7.

The number of credit cards has shot up from 9.8m in 1979 to 28.4m now.

Their numbers shot up to 1.2 million in 1989 from 400,000 in 1982.

Over the past three years, the number of legally registered private companies has shot up to 57,000 from 5,000.

But then the concept caught fire, and by 1997, the number had shot up to almost 28 percent.

In a follow-up poll, the number shot up to 64 percent.

Two days later, the number had shot up to 9 million.