in record numbers
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: in amounts or quantities greater than ever before
New houses are being built in record numbers.
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But, at a time when hundreds of Cubans are in prison for voicing dissent and hundreds more are fleeing the island in record numbers — some dying at sea and during multi-country treks to the U.S.-Mexico border — the glossy American travel brochures peddling travel to Cuba sicken me.
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Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
Voters lined up in record numbers this year outside their boards of election to vote early in Greater Cincinnati.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
Killings were occurring in record numbers — 132 in 1993 compared with 48 five years earlier.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Chinese migrants in search of jobs and freedom from the repressive government there started arriving in record numbers — increasing from just 949 arrests in fiscal year 2022 to more than 37,000 last fiscal year.
—Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
Voters lined up in record numbers this year outside their boards of election to vote early in Greater Cincinnati.
—Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
Killings were occurring in record numbers — 132 in 1993 compared with 48 five years earlier.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Chinese migrants in search of jobs and freedom from the repressive government there started arriving in record numbers — increasing from just 949 arrests in fiscal year 2022 to more than 37,000 last fiscal year.
—Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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