'Accumulation' can refer to a cumulative or compound increase in a variable, or to capital accumulation.

United executives said the airline had been able to raise fares four times this year, for a cumulative increase of about 8 percent.

That amounts to an astonishing 97 percent of the cumulative increase of the total growth in employment measured by the household survey over this period.

Premiums were already rising rapidly, with many Medigap insurers reporting a cumulative increase of more than 45 percent over the last three years.

White pushed through a three-year, 45-percent fare increase, the largest cumulative increase in the agency's history.

The cost of limiting emissions of greenhouse gases has to be borne by those societies which are responsible for the cumulative increase in their concentration levels.

"In addition, there is a prospect that the cumulative increase will be larger than expected."

Since 1994 the cumulative increase in employment has been 39 per cent.

During the latter half of the 1990's, booming American economic growth probably accounted for as much as 40 percent of the cumulative increase in world output.

For the week, the Dow managed to gain 3.98 points, giving it a seventh consecutive weekly advance and a cumulative increase of 247.91 points, or 10.2 percent.