English term
increasing numbers
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Responses
Germany
enthusiast
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English, English to German, English, and 1 more.
more and more
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Stephanie Ezrol
: opening up more and more digital databases
8 hrs
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Thanks, Stephanie!
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Russian Federation
proficient translation
Native in: English , Russian
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, English
the quantity of databases are increasing (more and more every day)
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Note added at 45 mins (2010-10-22 17:24:43 GMT)
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"is increasing" - I've been sloppy, replaced "numbers" with "quantity".
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Note added at 4 hrs (2010-10-22 21:11:43 GMT)
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To be accurate:
The quantity of databases is increasing and the sizes of the databases are increasing as well due to the adding of volumes.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2010-10-22 21:20:15 GMT)
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http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
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Note added at 4 hrs (2010-10-22 21:31:26 GMT)
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It should be "quantity" there, not "number":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:quantity...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-10-22 21:40:02 GMT)
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If you want a better, nicer sounding English:"The multitude of databeses is incresing"
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-10-22 21:53:46 GMT)
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"... are opening up opportunities to use an increasing multitude of databases" - governments do not sit at the computer, they provide opportunities.
Discussion
"an increasing number of databases is..." — sounds horrid!
We did have a similar question the other day, discussing whether a collective noun like 'a number of...' should be followed by a plural or singular verb; always tricky, and the choice often has to depend on just how the sentence is organized, so as to avoid ugly clashes like the one above.