Example Sentences

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Kurzweil believes that, by the end of the current century, human technology will have jumped by an amount equivalent to all of the progress made in the last 20,000 years.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2020

The UN Environment Programme predicts that between 2007 and 2020, the amount of e-waste exported to India will have jumped by 500 percent, and by 200 to 400 percent in South Africa and China.

From The Verge • Jun. 22, 2016

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect housing starts will have jumped 6.1 percent last month, compared with a 5.9 percent drop in February.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2010

Before he and his fellow campaigners are through excess capacity in the Tennessee Valley will have jumped to at least 66%.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day he will be at a port looking at the accommodations which are being made for incoming vessels and on the next he will have jumped from the base to a front line trench.

From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Broun, Heywood