The number of city dwellers is growing.

城市居民的数量日渐增长。

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The number of tourists tails off in October.

十月份游客人数越来越少。

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The number of companies offering them work increased.

给他们提供工作的公司的数量增多了。

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One way to raise the average fuel economy is to increase the number of electric cars on the road.

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So we see that I've doubled the size of the vector but I've much more than doubled the number of calls.

所以我们看到我,把向量的大小翻倍了,但是我调用的次数,不仅仅是翻倍了。

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And so when we say something is exponential, we're talking about in terms of the number of bits required to represent it.

所以当我们说某些东西，是指数增长的我们指的,就是代表它的比特数。

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Between 1995 and 2010, the number of people in the Netherlands with dual citizenship nearly tripled.

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He increased the number of coaches, both for goods and passenger trains, from 16 to 24.

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Anschutz figured he could maximize revenues by limiting the number of sponsors in the arena.

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