The number of visitors jumped to 3.5 million, 23% more than the previous year.
Forestry Commission Scotland said 7.5 million cubic metres were harvested in 2011, which was half a million more than the previous year.
Last year, the USPTO issued a record-high of 219, 614 utility patents, nearly one-third more than the previous year and the steepest annual increase on record, according to IFI analysis.
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The deputy research director at Hecsu, Charlie Ball, says that in a "difficult jobs market" and a struggling economy "over 166, 000 of last year's graduates were known to be working in the UK six months after leaving university - nearly 8, 000 more than the previous year".
Sure enough, they found that males with larger forehead patches than the year before also fathered more sons than they had done the previous year, whereas those with smaller forehead patches fathered more daughters.
In the first half of 2012 his commission launched 180 investigations into insider trading and malfeasance, 70% more than in the previous year.
Its financial losses were more than triple the previous year's.
The useful nuggets are here: app downloads in the Appstore have grown more than 500 percent over the previous year, and the number of GameCircle enabled games available on Kindle Fire has more than doubled since the launch of Kindle Fire HD.
The IRS employed nearly 3, 000 staffers dedicated to prevent and investigate identity theft-related crimes, more than twice than the previous year.
In fact, more businesses started last year than in the previous year.
They found those who smoked marijuana the most -that's more than 40 times during the previous year - they were significantly more likely to suffer gum disease compared to those who smoked less or not at all.
According to comScore, MySpace reported 54.4 million users at the end of November, a loss of more than nine million from the previous year.
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Contributing to the increase was Internet sales (which I estimate to be more than 35% over the previous year).
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The decline was the third consecutive drop and follows a more than 20 percent decrease in the previous year's study, which also blamed the storms as well as summer heat.
Almost 30 million adults were in a job in the quarter to last November, up by more than half a million on the previous year.
By its original count at least, IBM tallied more than 4, 000 new software bugs revealed in 2010, far more than the first half of any previous year.
Revenue for hotels in both Edinburgh and Inverness were down more than 4% on the previous year.
They complied, lending 95.3% more in 2009 than in the previous year.
In its results statement, Superglass said "uncertainty had prevailed in key markets" throughout the financial year, with construction market activity down by more than 6% in volume terms on the previous year.
Xavi and Andres Iniesta, the midfield creators, had played more than 120 games between them in the previous year, and most of the squad was running on fumes.
In April 2012, a study by scientists at the US Geological Survey of the interior of the US found that events of magnitude 3 or greater had "abruptly increased in 2009" from 1.2 per year in the previous 50 years to more than 25 per year - although a number of gas and oil extraction methods may be implicated in the rise.
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It was 20% more than Matthew Stafford was guaranteed the previous year as the top pick.
Standard Chartered PLC's China unit reported profit of 883 million yuan, more than double what it earned the previous year.
It had been more than a year from the previous message when he put out an audiotape in January and there hasn't been a video of him since his election-eve message of October 2004.
May 2008 was the eighth consecutive month that prices have come in more than 6.0% higher than the previous year.
The DfE says that, despite a 60% cut in education capital spending over the next four years, the coalition is still spending more per year on school building work than the previous government did in its first two terms.
Despite positive reviews, last year's flagship phone, the HTC One X, struggled to sell, and the company's net profit during the last three months of 2012 plummeted by more than 90% compared to the same period the previous year.
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The study also found that economies in Africa implemented more positive reforms in the past year than in any previous year on record.
The 7, 120 boat people who landed in the first seven months of this year were more than for each of the previous two years.
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