I. verb
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a dramatic increase/rise
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There has been a dramatic rise in fuel costs.
a growing/increasing need
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She emphasized the growing need to deal with environmental problems.
a growing/increasing number
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An increasing number of women are entering the profession.
a growing/increasing/rising trend
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a growing trend towards globalization in world markets
a growth/rise/increase in exports
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The electronics sector has seen a 16% growth in exports.
a huge loss/profit/increase etc
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a huge increase in cost
a level rises/goes up/increases
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The level of unemployment has increased.
a number increases/goes up/grows/rises
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The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.
a pay increase
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Teachers will be awarded a 6% pay increase this year.
a percentage increase/change
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Poorer pensioners experienced the greatest percentage increase in their pensions.
a population grows/increases/rises
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Between these years the population grew by 40%.
a price goes up/rises/increases
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When supplies go down, prices tend to go up.
a price rise/increase
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Consumers are facing more fuel price rises.
a rapid increase/rise
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The country cannot cope with a rapid increase in population.
a rent increase
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How can they justify such big rent increases?
a rise/increase in unemployment
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The crisis meant a sharp rise in unemployment.
a rise/increase in value
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We saw a rapid increase in the land’s value.
a salary increase
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He was given a huge salary increase.
a steady increase/rise
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The campus has benefited from a steady increase in student numbers.
a wage increase/rise
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The rail workers demanded a 20% wage increase.
an increased/reduced risk
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Those who smoke have an increased risk of heart disease.
an increase/growth in sales
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The company is expecting a 20% increase in sales next year.
an increase/rise in expenditure
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The government has announced a planned 4.4% increase in public expenditure.
an increase/rise in salary
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They were offered a 10% increase in salary.
boost/increase sb’s confidence (= make someone feel more confident )
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One of my stories was published, which really boosted my confidence.
consumption rises/increases/goes up
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Consumption of unleaded fuel rose by 17% in 1992.
demand rises/increases
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Demand for energy has continued to rise.
earnings rise/increase
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Average earnings increased by 5 per cent last year.
exports increase/rise/grow
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Electronics exports grew more slowly than in previous years.
extend/increase/stretch sb’s lead (= make the lead bigger )
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The Australian rugby team extended its lead with a try from Stirling Mortlock.
fractional increase
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a fractional increase
gain/grow/increase in popularity
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Extreme sports are growing in popularity.
greater/increased efficiency
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In a search for greater efficiency, the two departments have merged.
greatly increased/reduced
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The cost of repairs has greatly increased in recent years.
growing/increasing importance
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the growing importance of the Internet as a source of information
growing/increasing inequality
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Income trends are shifting form increasing equality to increasing inequality.
growing/increasing resentment
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Soon growing resentment against foreigners erupted into violence.
growing/increasing/rising popularity
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This may be the key to explaining Celtic music's increasing popularity.
growing/rising/increased expectations (= becoming higher )
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China's economy will grow considerably over the next five years, bringing rising expectations of wealth.
imports increase/rise/grow
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Imports increased by 13 percent last year.
improve/increase efficiency
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The company is taking steps to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
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Recent efforts by American business to increase efficiency seem to have failed.
in large/increasing/limited etc numbers
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Birds nest here in large numbers.
increase a level
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Healthy eating can increase your energy level.
increase a majority (= get more votes than you had before )
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Labour increased its majority in the area.
increase a risk
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Smoking increases the risk of heart disease.
increase expenditure
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The company plans to increase capital expenditure by 20% this financial year.
increase imports
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The company increased imports in order to cut domestic production costs.
increase inequality
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Some of the government's policies have actually increased inequalities between men and women.
increase sb’s salary
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His salary was increased to £80,000 a year.
increase the chance of sth
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Certain foods increase the chance of heart disease.
increase the number of sth
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As you improve, increase the number of times you do each exercise.
increase your fitness
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Aerobic exercise, such as jogging or cycling, will increase your fitness.
increase your income
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She took on extra work to increase her income.
increase your speed
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He increased his speed until he was running flat out.
increase/boost demand
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A very hard winter boosted the demand for natural gas.
increased sixfold
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Burglaries have increased sixfold .
increased tenfold
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Business has increased tenfold in the past two years.
increased/increasing emphasis
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Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on creating more jobs.
increased/increasing emphasis
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Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on creating more jobs.
increased/increasing/growing demand
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One of the problems is the growing demand for housing.
increased/increasing/growing demand
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One of the problems is the growing demand for housing.
increase/improve your knowledge
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If you want to improve your knowledge of the language, you should go and live in France.
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In the past twenty years, we have greatly increased our knowledge of how the brain works.
increase/improve/enhance sb’s understanding
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The classes really helped to increase our understanding of the subject.
increase/improve/raise productivity
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ways of increasing productivity
increase/push up the cost
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The new tax will increase the cost of owning a car.
increase/raise spending
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He has increased public spending and raised taxes.
increase/raise the rent ( also put up the rent British English )
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The landlord wants to put up the rent.
increase/reduce the dosage
increase/reduce/add to etc sb’s workload
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We’ve got to find ways of reducing Gail’s workload next year.
increase/rise by half (= become 50% more )
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The number of passengers using the service has increased by half.
increase/rise/fall etc in production
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a drop in oil and gas production
increase/rise/go up in value
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The dollar has been steadily increasing in value.
increasing/growing competition
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the growing competition between banks
increasing/growing/mounting/rising tension
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There are reports of increasing tension in some areas.
increasing/mounting anxiety
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There is mounting anxiety about the rise in violent crime.
increasing/mounting pressure
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There was increasing pressure on the Chancellor to cut petrol tax.
modest increase
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a modest increase in costs
noticeable difference/change/increase etc
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a noticeable improvement in air quality
phenomenal growth/rise/increase
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California had experienced a phenomenal growth in population.
population increase
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The population increase in the region is a cause for concern.
profits rise/increase/grow
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Half of the firms surveyed expected profits to rise.
progressive decline/reduction/increase etc
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the progressive increase in population
put up/increase/raise a price
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Manufacturers have had to put their prices up.
raise/increase taxes ( also put up taxes British English )
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He claimed the Labour Party would put up taxes.
raise/increase the tension
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The arrests only served to raise the tension.
represent a change/an advance/an increase etc
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This treatment represents a significant advance in the field of cancer research.
rise/increase sharply
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The value of early photographs has risen sharply in recent years.
sales increase/rise/grow/go up
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Sales rose by 9% last year.
sb’s confidence grows/increases
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Since she started her new school, her confidence has grown a lot.
sb’s income rises/increases/goes up
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They saw their income rise considerably over the next few years.
tax increases
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He accused the president of planning the biggest tax increases in U.S. history.
the rent increases/goes up
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The rent has gone up by over 50% in the last two years.
the value of sth increases/rises
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The value of the land had increased by $2m.
twofold increase
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a twofold increase in cases of TB
unemployment increases/rises
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During their term in office unemployment increased by 50 percent.
with alarming/increasing etc regularity
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Our team kept losing with monotonous regularity in a way that seems boring or annoying .
with increasing frequency (= more and more often )
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Side effects from prescribed drugs are being reported with increasing frequency .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
by
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Petrol will increase by around 11p a gallon with annual road tax rising from £110 to £130.
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Thus, lease payments for the office will increase by more than $ 90, 000 a year.
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This had no effect on the rate ratio estimates but the width of the confidence intervals was increased by about 50%.
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Although these were prosperous years, disposable income of individuals increased by only about 2 I percent.
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From 1979 to 1988 they increased by about 34 percent., and there have been further improvements since 1988.
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In addition, parked domain names increased by over 40,000 to a new total of 210,000.
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The wages of public sector employees were increased by up to 200 percent, with 350 percent increases for health and education workers.
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Since 1994, troop strength has increased by roughly 15 percent, to about 180, 000.
dramatically
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Over the past 30 years Western living standards have increased dramatically , yet the sense of well-being has plummeted.
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But the pace and complexity will increase dramatically under deregulation, as will the number of electricity vendors, energy analysts say.
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The reason is that crime has increased dramatically under the Government.
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To match federal program cuts, that proportion would have to dramatically increase .
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Already more than 100 management agreements are under discussion and the number is expected to increase dramatically now that the guidelines are in force.
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Until the trend was arrested, the size of committee staffs had been increasing dramatically in recent years.
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The fact that bumiputra ownership had increased dramatically , no doubt helped smooth the way.
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By having regular contact with her and then following her guidance, you will dramatically increase the likelihood of success.
greatly
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This has the effect of greatly increasing the strength of the withdrawal reflex in response to subsequence stimulation of the siphon alone.
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But that, of course, would greatly increase the amount of plutonium to be dealt with.
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Although the number recorded has greatly increased in recent years, no real change in status may have occurred.
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However, the mass of equipment required on Mars to extract and process water may be greatly increased .
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Compulsory seating at football grounds has greatly increased my enjoyment of games.
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Materials represent a healthy balance between theoretical and applied knowledge, and all have a multiple use potential greatly increasing their value.
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He accepted that legalisation would not necessarily greatly increase addiction to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
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Now, with the new administration, he is working to see the program and its monies greatly increased . reformer circles.
significantly
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Women had the vote, and education and employment opportunities had increased significantly for single women.
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For reasons that remain obscure, caffeine significantly increases the analgesic effectiveness of both aspirin and aspirin substitutes such as acetaminophen.
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It replaces two ole cast iron systems and will significantly increase production.
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Nygard and his team found that coffee not only raised levels of blood cholesterol, but also significantly increased homocysteine.
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Utilization rates for both these services increase significantly with the age of older people.
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Since then, the number of direct sales outlets has increased significantly .
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This information has significantly increased man's knowledge of the lunar environment.
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Also, for whatever reason, the number of applicants has significantly increased .
steadily
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Demand looks set to increase steadily at about 1.4% a year, as clean-burning gas replaces oil and coal.
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After the second month of pregnancy, estriol levels steadily increase as the placenta takes over estrogen production. 344.
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The attendance has increased steadily over the years and the conference attracts more and more international participants.
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Throughout the fall of 1989, a steadily increasing number of employees requested transfers out of Black &038; White.
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Subsequently, he steadily increases his short position in futures, so that at delivery he has 1905 contracts.
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Since the woman collapsed in 1988, the first diagnosed hyponatremia case at the Canyon, cases of hyponatremia have steadily increased .
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The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War.
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Before that, money had increased steadily since January 1994.
■ NOUN
amount
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They also increase the amount of sensory stimulation it receives.
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Simplifies tax filing for thousands of middle-income Californians by increasing the exemption amounts used in calculating the Alternative Minimum Tax.
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In addition, an expanding Kingston required increasing amounts of fruit and market garden produce which are currently the main products.
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This means that equilibrium quantity will increase by an amount greater than that which either change would have entailed in isolation.
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Brown algae is generally an indication of quite low lighting levels and increasing the amount of light will overcome this problem.
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And for fourteen years, Nucor had paid a dividend to its stockholders, increasing the amount of the dividend each year.
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We have increased the amount being spent on the coastguard service and a good coastguard service is available to our coastline.
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When those goals are respected, we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts .
capacity
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It should be noted that there is possibly another option, that is for the company to increase its capacity .
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Because of the limited bandwidth available over existing telephone lines, the telcos must increase their last mile capacity .
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We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control.
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Key reasons include an ability to increase capacity and to compete globally.
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A 250-bedroom extension to the Excelsior will increase total capacity to 1,576 rooms not counting Skyway's 450 rooms.
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Pursuing new technologies to increase roadway capacity without adding travel lanes has become fashionable.
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So far, there are indications that technology developments can, within five years, increase the capacity of existing trainers tenfold.
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Their luminal surfaces possess microvilli which increase the absorptive capacity of the cells.
chance
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The only defendant to testify was Salaam, a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction.
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And the change could also increase Moore's chances of a place in the Test line-up.
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If she is 14 rather than 10, it could increase her chances of getting to keep her child, Hay said.
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Thus issue of pasting in photographs etc. would be resolved and so increase the chances of having the complete story.
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The decrease in muscle strength can be accompanied by impaired balance, which increases the chance of falling and breaking bones.
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What this illustrates is the tenacity of testators towards formulae which they believe increase the chances of their dispositions being observed.
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For such clients, setting intermediate goals increases the chances of initial success, which will keep their motivation up.
demand
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This has increased the demand for new facilities, but the supply of teams remains limited.
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Increasing life expectancy has increased the demands for medical care, retirement communities, and nursing homes.
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This growth itself increases the demand for money.
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To get more funding, one community mental health center demonstrated an increased demand from dislocated workers.
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Supermarkets themselves say they're catering for increasing customer demand , customers too seem to reinforce that attitude.
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Speculation that the cold weather increased demand for heating oil pushed prices higher in early trading.
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As we move up the hierarchy towards elite sport, there is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
frequency
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The topographical setting of an urban area can increase the frequency and severity of adverse meteorological conditions.
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Personal secrets have turned into public issues and, with increasing frequency , public scandals.
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Sneezing comes early and with increasing frequency .
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Nevertheless, teachers may improve their effectiveness by increasing the frequency of positive responses while reducing the negative.
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Dexter sighed with increasing frequency when sent out to check yet another marriage bureau.
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Anxiety and despair broke through it with increasing frequency .
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Another mechanism, called transposition, can also increase the frequency of one variant through the genome.
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It was, in other words, the kind of book you encounter with increased frequency as you move through college.
importance
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From the point of view of capital the sector would have increased in importance by a half.
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Another argument in favour of the provinces is that the steady decentralisation of justice from London naturally increases the importance of the provincial Bar.
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Indeed as the public domain has become more impersonal and technical so the family has increased in importance .
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This increases the importance of competition as a structuring agent. 3.
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The 1970s and 1980s have been marked by an ever increasing realisation of the importance of home - school relationships.
level
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The second assumption is that additional tax relief will indeed increase the level of giving.
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Regular blood tests of the sequestered biospherians showed increased levels of pesticides and herbicides in their blood.
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If I build a trickle filter, holding approximately 10 gallons, will I be able to increase my stocking level ?
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As black participation in the economy increased , the level of repression to enforce apartheid was stepped up.
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It is not good practice to use extra filter capacity to increase stocking levels in the main tank.
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As the dosage increased above that level , activity dropped.
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Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention.
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As hospitals continue to consolidate, centralize, and diversify functions, competition will increase at all job levels .
number
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The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people.
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Keeping churches open is the main reason nonpriests are overseeing an increasing number of parishes.
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Changes in lifestyle and increasing numbers of households also mean that more homes will be required.
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Banks say the devices increase the number of personal loan transactions.
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With data filtering one pays the price of decreasing the effective library redundancy and increasing the number of hybridisations.
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An increasing number of mid-level consultants had learned new skills.
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It supports the Futurebus+, increasing the number of user priorities LynxOS can process to include rate, multiprocessing and scheduling.
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To work, your strategy must continually increase the number of people joining you in taking responsibility for change.
numbers
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As a result increasing numbers are registering with tourist boards, even though this means allowing inspectors on their premises.
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I see increasing numbers of anemones and a couple of empty mussel shells.
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Were merchants and artisans increasing in numbers at the expense of other classes?
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But then all hell broke loose, geologically speaking, as increasing numbers of sources for the rock were discovered.
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Above them, Hunters swarmed in increasing numbers .
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Once uncommon in our waters, they have become more abundant as anchovies, a favored food, have increased in numbers .
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The first two Conservative governments presided over an economy which produced ever increasing numbers of unemployed people.
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Changes in lifestyle and increasing numbers of households also mean that more homes will be required.
power
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The Act has also vastly increased the powers of Immigration Officers.
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Organizational environments are always uncertain, so departments that can cope effectively with uncertainty can increase their power within the organization.
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The power of the chief executive or minister can in this way be used to increase the power of some one else.
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Board of Education in 1954 increased federal power in education.
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Others, including Stead, attacked the bill for increasing the arbitrary power of the police on the streets.
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The continuously falling price and increasing power of desk-top computers has led to their widespread availability and use.
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Fundamentalist religious groups have increased their power in Ulster in recent decades, especially the free presbyterians.
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Even before last week's decision bureaucrats were debating whether to lower the target because of the increasing hostility to nuclear power .
pressure
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In a functional department we face quite properly increasing pressure on our resources.
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But in recent weeks Gen McCaffrey has come under increasing pressure .
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That has increased pressure to move to a more professional army.
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By the early 1960s, however, there was increasing pressure for control over immigration.
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Once on its own, Nielsen will be under increased pressure to perform.
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The Institute is now under increasing pressure to open up its disciplinary hearings to the public.
price
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In the past 30 years house prices have increased by 135 % and wages by only 60 %.
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If the opposite holds true, equilibrium price will increase .
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The continuously falling price and increasing power of desk-top computers has led to their widespread availability and use.
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For example, many technology stocks in 1995 had stock price increases that far surpassed their profits.
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The price of a job increases with its potential returns.
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So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate.
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Crabb said non-ferrous prices now appear to have stabilized at lower levels and ferrous prices have increased .
production
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But china clay production has increased .
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Oil imports began to decline as domestic production began to increase .
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This is interpreted as being indicative of the different functions which are served by comprehension and production with increasing age.
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The speed of production has increased , and the distribution of workers and work flow has dispersed.
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Advocates of globalisation advise third world economic planners to divert water away from food production to increase manufacturing.
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The polyester products maker attributed the forecast to weak world-wide demand that has lowered production volumes and increased manufacturing costs.
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The educational system is partly concerned with producing the skills and expertise to expand production and increase its efficiency.
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The higher prices would dovetail nicely with production capacity increases that are already in the pipeline.
productivity
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Much additional work has to be done to increase productivity further.
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Nearly a third of respondents also said they increased their productivity by working at home.
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In January 1987, it asked suppliers to increase their productivity by 5% a year, for five years.
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Here as elsewhere in the developing world, traffic snarls have increased tensions and decreased productivity .
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The drive to increase productivity resulted in a series of conflicts with the unions as Sir Michael sought the right to manage.
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Nor has the focus of government industrial research been on increasing the efficiency and productivity of existing industry.
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In other spheres attempts to increase productivity had been blocked.
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For example, improved pregnancy outcome that reduces infant mortality will increase productivity in the labor force in 16 to 25 years.
profit
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Pretax profit increased 17 percent to 44 million.
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Its operating profits have increased by 20% from £22.5 million to £27.1 million.
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Such saving is specifically used to increase productive capital and future profits .
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Revenues and profits increased dramatically, and Mega achieved its 1984 plan.
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Group pre-tax profits to 30 June increased from £7.11m to £9.22m on turnover ahead just 3 percent to £181m.
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The Memphis company is a fast grower, with profits increasing more than 20 % in each of the past two years.
rate
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They contribute 14 percent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 percent a year.
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Even to suggest that efforts he made to expand the labor force by increasing the domestic birth rate would seem slightly artful.
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Over past years, locals had experienced increasing crime rates and a growing fear of crime.
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The total cost curve increases at a decreasing rate over some range and then begins to increase at an increasing rate.
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This increases your heart rate and encourages more oxygen into the body as you breathe more quickly.
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Those substances increase the heart rate and blood pressure, and may increase the substances that help form clots.
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Productivity growth Faster scrapping of old plant as a result of insufficient labour should increase the rate of growth of labour productivity.
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The average cost then increases at a slower rate and eventually approaches the marginal cost.
risk
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Continual weight fluctuation increases the risk of heart disease and early death.
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Certain medical conditions increase the risk of taking sleeping pills.
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For high risk junctions increasing exemplar risk is associated with an increase in the amount of information described.
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For two decades, research has re-ported that anger is related to an increased risk of heart attack.
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Hypothesis Power lines, cancer and cyclotron resonance Living close to overhead power lines may increase the risk of cancer in humans.
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It had increased the risk of war while making war immeasurably more dangerous.
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However, installing a medium or large computer with pre-packaged software severely increases the risk .
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Controlling for the other variables, Thaler and Rosen found a clear systematic tendency for wage rates to rise with increasing risk .
sale
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Layout and design can make a great difference in increasing sales .
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The company today increased its sales estimate for 1996 for its storage products for computer linked on networks, its newest business.
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Only Ireland had increased vehicle sales in April.
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He has increased sales every year since he started his company.
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It's no use increasing sales by £500 if the campaign itself cost £1000!
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This would have increased city sales tax revenues to cover property tax losses -- for the city.
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They want to increase sales by selling to anyone regardless of whether we are likely to get paid or not. 3.
share
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And although our markets are declining we have increased our market share in all sectors.
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Lower classes find that only violence enables their class to increase its relative share of values.
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Lloyd's is keen not only to increase its market share but to broaden its spread of risks.
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To increase its market share , Ethyl has been trading companies.
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Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years, increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million.
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There is every reason to believe that the developing countries will continue to draw an increasing share of worldwide investment funds.
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Stockbroker Hoare Govett believes that radio could increase its share by 5 percent by 1995.
size
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Pilaster strip decoration is usual and small windows, increasing in size towards the top.
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Community usage can also be indicated by gradually increasing the type size .
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Knit the same number of rows as knitted on the ribber, increasing stitch size by two dots on each row.
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Instead, we can expect companies to increase the size of the public relations screen used to hide what is going on.
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Females tend to remain in their natal units, which thereby increase gradually in size .
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Several years ago a director of one of our divisions wanted to increase the size of the printing order.
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There was, however, still no agreement on increasing net mesh size to help conserve stocks.
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During the inflationary phase, the universe increases its size by a very large amount.
tax
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They have been hit by the present Government, under whom the tax burden has increased .
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The second assumption is that additional tax relief will indeed increase the level of giving.
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The public squabbling over tax and fee increases recalled a similar exchange from the 1992 presidential campaign.
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Corporation tax , by increasing the fixed costs, in effect raises the entry barriers to the industry.
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How could the federal government make up the revenue drain that would result to avoid raising other taxes or increasing the deficit?
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To put it another way, reducing income tax will increase people's capacity to afford more leisure.
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The poll tax will increase the numbers eligible for housing benefit.
value
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If you would like to give a child an investment present that will increase in value , phone 0898-666629 for advice.
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Materials represent a healthy balance between theoretical and applied knowledge, and all have a multiple use potential greatly increasing their value .
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Because so much has been put into making such fine volumes, they have tended to increase in value year by year.
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Firms connected with Brown and Root did even better, increasing in value an average of 1. 64 percent.
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Our house has increased in value and we feel lucky that we're not affected by the slump in the housing market.
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A key way employees will find to increase their value to the company will be through service on these task forces.
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As present value increases relative to future value for a given term to maturity, the interest rate declines. 3.
wage
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Whether leisure time increases or decreases as wage rates rise is an empirical question.
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But opposition from the business community to increasing the minimum wage is already in place.
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When taxes were increased , wages and benefits were also increased accordingly.
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Being of very modest means, but having some contacts upon the turf, he attempted to increase his wages by gambling.
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Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force.
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He defends prevailing wage laws for skilled construction workers and supports increasing the minimum wage.
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These changes reflected Government policy of increasing resources and wages for the police and fire service.
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Theoretically, the commission could increase the minimum wage before the election.
■ VERB
continue
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The number of long-term unemployed has continued to increase and in January totalled 2,286.
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After fourth grade, the amount of schoolwork continues to increase gradually until grade seven, when another large jump occurs.
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But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand, grape prices continue to increase .
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As the hours of flying continued , the tension increased .
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Select new skin-care products. Continue exercise programme, increasing swimming to twenty lengths, walking to twenty minutes.
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But Clinton insists that new technologies will improve energy efficiency, enabling developing countries to continue economic growth without increasing emissions.
expect
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His bosses, the directors, say they look forward to next year, when they expect new business to increase .
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Instead, we can expect companies to increase the size of the public relations screen used to hide what is going on.
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It expects it to increase in value.
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It is reasonable to expect gun ownership to increase in the more conservative communities in the Bay Area.
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Either way, climate extremes are expected to increase .
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Some analysts had been expecting comparable-store sales to increase in the 6 % range.
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Continental is expected to try and increase its stake - or bid.
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Aetrium Inc., which reported better-than-#expected earnings Tuesday, increased 1 to 19 3 / 4.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ever-increasing/ever-present etc
exponential growth/increase etc
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If only passive properties determine the pressure elastic modulus, an exponential increase would have been expected.
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Most market professionals agree that the tax-deferred funds are a major force behind the exponential growth in stock prices.
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Text messaging has experienced exponential growth in the past year.
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This diversification has been shown to correspond closely to a simple exponential growth model.
punitive taxes/price increases etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a program to increase output by 14%
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Gradually the noise and traffic increased as they approached the city.
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Health care costs increased from £1.9 billion in 2000 to £4 billion in 2001.
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High alcohol consumption increases the risk of liver disease.
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Hormone levels increase throughout pregnancy.
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Major league clubs have increased in number from 26 to 28.
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Revenue and profits have increased dramatically this year.
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Some analysts say the new law could increase expectations of an economic recovery.
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The city plans to increase the number of public housing units.
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The Clean Air Act would increase the cost of electric power in the Midwest.
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The company has increased its workforce to 1,500 employees
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The cut in interest rates will help to increase confidence in the housing market.
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The excitement is increasing inside the stadium as we wait for the teams to come out onto the field.
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The government is increasing pressure on drug-traffickers.
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The imposition of martial law will only increase violence and repression.
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The number of high school students using LSD has increased to its highest level since 1986.
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The party aims to increase the number of women elected to Congress.
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The President's popularity has increased enormously in recent months.
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The price of cigarettes has increased by 30% in the last two years.
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The telephone company has had to increase its workforce by 10 percent.
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Breeders can increase production by taking an egg away and putting it in an incubator to hatch.
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But there is no evidence, so far, that it plans to increase its total number of warheads.
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Gate income won't exactly increase either over the remainder of what appears to be a relegation season.
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Others, including Stead, attacked the bill for increasing the arbitrary power of the police on the streets.
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The melting point increases with depth in the Earth because of the increasing pressure.
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Trade credit properly controlled can increase both your sales and your profits.
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Women can not increase their fecundity by taking more mates; men can.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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The five-year programme was budgeted to cost 22,750,000 million yen, at an average annual increase of around 3 percent.
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The number of state and federal inmates rose by 89, 707, which was the largest annual increase in history.
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Its annual increase in the 1980s was 1 percent.
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That is the highest annual increase in 15 years.
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The budget has reached £54,500 for the year with annual increases outstripping inflation.
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The school tax will remain in effect for eight years, with 4 percent annual increases .
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Between 1974 and 1978 there was an annual rate of increase in retail prices in excess of 17%.
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This compares with an average annual increase of 0.5-0.6 percent in the 1950s and 1960s.
big
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Women are working more across the board, but the biggest increase has come from women married to higher-earning husbands.
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He noted California experienced two big gasoline price increases in the 1990s.
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Large cuts in state spending and big increases in charges for fuels and utilities resulted.
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You know what has been the cause of the big increase in murders?
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It seems that many buildings will soon become unsafe unless there is a big increase in funds available for much-needed work.
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Only a big increase in volume has allowed dealers like Salomon to maintain revenue and profits.
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A big increase in the number of elderly people has to profoundly change the nature of the system.
dramatic
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He discovered that diffusing the transmitted light resulted in a dramatic increase in the resolution of such cryptic features.
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Other dangers are dramatic increases and decreases in blood pressure, paranoia and psychosis.
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Interviews done in the week after the shows aired found dramatic increases in awareness and understanding of medical issues surrounding both topics.
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Male speaker We've seen quite a dramatic increase this year.
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Taken together, they constitute a quite dramatic increase in inequality.
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However, during the late 1960s a dramatic and unprecedented increase in public concern for the environment occurred.
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Although the figure is small, it represents a dramatic increase compared with a total of six elected officials in 1962.
further
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The second-round effect of the increased government expenditure will be a further increase in national income of £40 million.
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But the general principle seems secure: we must beware of any further large increases in the carbon dioxide level.
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At this stage we have no plans for further increases .
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Out-of-state students, who already pay three to four times more than residents, can expect to see further increases .
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Any further increase could push Footsie, which started the year at 1,782.8, below 2,000.
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The third-round effect of the increase in government expenditure will be a further increase of £16 million in national income.
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Studies since Gorer's indicate a still further increase .
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After that the Home Office expected no further increases .
gradual
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The problem was resolved by a gradual increase in the social division of labour.
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A review of her temperature chart showed a gradual increase over the preceding eight hours.
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The gradual increase and specialization of radio channels disintegrated the audience.
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The main innovation was the gradual increase in the number of Sri Lankan magistrates and judges.
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Mr Dorrell said he hoped a gradual tax increase would make the principle more acceptable to drivers.
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A falling mortality rate led to a gradual increase in the proportion of the aged in the population.
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For women, a pattern of gradual increase was seen by birth cohort in all age groups.
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But from 1941 onwards there was a gradual increase in optimism.
great
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One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself.
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The prime result is to make possible a greater increase in population than would be possible on any carnivorous diet.
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Assuming a free choice becomes possible, it is difficult to foresee any great increase in the numbers of limited partnerships.
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Others claim to have measured even greater increases .
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Moreover, we find a greater increase in conductivity with temperature for the carbon-bearing samples.
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The expansion of the middle-class was one aspect of the great increase in population marking the nineteenth century.
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In this manner I restored many to their senses, with great increase in reputation, and still greater diversion for myself.
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The successful LBOs as a group also experienced greater increases in leverage with the buyout.
huge
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This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population, as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed.
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We can point to your huge increase in military spending and then continue on with our own.
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In 1921, there was a huge increase in the emigration and physical extinction of households.
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Tellingly, huge increases in those behaviors were all launched at around the same time, the era of Woodstock and Stonewall.
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One forecasts a huge increase in the ever-escalating costs of the Trident programme.
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Government is poised to forecast a huge increase in the extraction of aggregates-one third of which go to roads.
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For example, the huge increase in the number of motor vehicles has led to a massive increase in auto-crimes.
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That would make a mockery of the Kyoto protocol: instead of cuts, it could lead to huge increases of emissions.
large
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Each Neighbourhood Office was allocated a half-time under-fives worker post, despite a large increase in workload.
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Cancer incidence did not rise in the clinic after a large increase in prescriptions for atenolol after 1976.
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It is also because improving practice in the area of assessment can be done without requiring large increases in financial resources.
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During the years 1918 - 21, a period of severe food shortages, there was a large increase in cattle theft.
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However, there was a very large increase in the number of the heaviest vehicles.
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A comparison between the 1972 and 1983 studies shows a large increase in the numbers from all social classes gaining O-level qualifications.
marked
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Nationally, there has been a marked increase in the sale and consumption of pies.
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There has been a marked and regrettable increase in reports from the town over the past year concerning the behaviour of students.
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Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements.
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It is therefore interesting to find such a marked increase in salaried employment even over this five-year period.
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A marked increase in their power would challenge what he surely considered his rightful position within the Yorkist polity.
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From the mid 1880s there was a marked increase in the incidence of strikes.
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Historically the marked increase in the flow and quality of economic statistics was a valuable outcome of the war effort.
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A marked increase in the numbers of nobles had taken place since the early twelfth century.
massive
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Trade increased by some 11% from the previous year and showed a massive 62% increase over the last decade.
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We are anxious to know where this massive increase will be found?
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For example, the huge increase in the number of motor vehicles has led to a massive increase in auto-crimes.
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Despite the massive increase in the volume of research in psychology and ethology, little progress seems to have been made.
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The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding.
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Would not a massive increase of jobs ensure that training be integrated to economic revival and be more productive in finding work?
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In fact, the massive increase in migration contained a considerable quantity of impermanent movement - temporary, seasonal or merely nomadic.
modest
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So modest pay increases were accompanied by a lifting of restrictions on public officials engaging in private enterprise.
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Legislative leaders, who approved modest increases in college funding in the last few years, could not be reached Friday.
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That is described in the Treasury's paper as a modest increase .
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With many excises however, modest price increases have little or 00 effect on sales.
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For a very modest increase , the authority could finance the £100 million required for the strategy.
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Some predicted modest increases , but others were less optimistic.
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The overall exports total showed a modest 0.5 percent increase by value to £8.1billion in November.
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Waltham Forest strongly contested the belief that modest revenue increases would be sufficient for reprovision of Claybury.
rapid
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But by around 1020, the quality of Norman coins declined markedly as a concomitant to the rapid increase in quantity.
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The report also notes a rapid increase in the number of single-parent households.
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The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics.
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This rapid increase failed to materialize, however.
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With the rapid increase in biotechnological research, stricter controls with powers of enforcement may well prove necessary in Britain.
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However, the rapid increase in the number of science policy-making organs does not necessarily imply efficiency.
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There is a rapid and immediate increase in the risk of dying shortly after the index bleed.
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Younger age groups are experiencing a rapid increase in the proportion of minorities among their ranks.
sharp
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Book illustration is a field marked by sharp increases in price over the last two decades.
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The budget proposes a sharp fee increase for California community colleges that officials say would cut enrollment.
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By 1948 another sharp increase to 19,765 had occurred, with the average daily population exceeding 20,000 in July of that year.
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Individual communities saw their own sharp increases in adult cases, with devastating results.
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As motorists have found to their cost, the result has been a sharp increase in petrol prices at the pump.
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The sharpest increases were in California and New York, the group said.
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The decay of Britain's roads has been reflected in a sharp increase in central government's spending on road maintenance.
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About 14 percent of the civilian population is enrolled in Medicaid, a sharp increase from 10 percent in 1990.
significant
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A market downturn in rig moves was more than compensated for by a significant increase in supporting offshore construction projects.
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A homeowner who has paid down that loan or seen a significant increase in property value may no longer need this coverage.
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One consequence was a significant increase in violence within the force.
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So far, such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid.
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It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth's surface.
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A significant increase has been achieved in the income from investments rising from £40,929 to £65,356.
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Palatine shareholders are being offered a significant increase in capital value and income, plus a substantial premium over net asset value.
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Business Studies continued to show the largest demand with very significant increases recorded in Marketing and Public Relations.
slight
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There have, for example, been slight increases in average family size and in the average age at marriage.
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Thiazides may cause a slight increase in magnesium excretion.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Here the increment in individual risk from a slight increase in contact rate is negligible, assuming the individual acts alone.
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Both figures constitute a slight increase over the previous year.
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Transfection with TAP2 a resulted in a slight increase of HLA-A2 and HLA-B5 expression, which we are investigating at present.
small
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Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation.
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Statewide, the agency attributed a small increase in unemployment largely to a drop in agricultural jobs.
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Some small increases in women's pay were implemented, but these did not significantly affect the differential between men and women.
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Even small increases in CO2 levels can boost biomass production significantly.
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Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely.
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The forecasters expect some decline in energy prices and a smaller increase in food prices.
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Farms are fairly small but increase in size nearer the hills.
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This seemingly small increase could pump huge amounts of extra energy into storm systems.
steady
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By 1972, that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase .
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That steady increase can take them several miles down into the crust.
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Their story from then on is one of slow, but steady , increase and diversification.
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Unit costs were down and cash flow up, providing a steady increase in the gainsharing payout to employees.
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Military returns had reported a steady increase in venereal infection among the men since the 1820s.
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It shows steady increases in accidents with injuries, as traffic volumes mounted.
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The application of nuclear and radiation physics sees a steady increase in the number of titles.
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Shares of consumer product companies that post steady earnings increases even when the economy slows gained this week.
substantial
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Small wonder so little value has been obtained, despite the substantial increase in resources.
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And in civil courts around the country there was a substantial increase in the number of suits filed.
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The result has been a substantial increase in homelessness and deprivation.
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Will we see a substantial increase in prices from year to year?
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The market now seems to be improving and we are anticipating a substantial increase in our volumes during 1993.
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In addition, for good measure, a substantial increase in the Government's commitment to hospital building was announced.
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He could make substantial increases in the severe weather payments scheme.
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This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration, the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane.
■ NOUN
pay
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It gives the 3,200 staff a 7.6 percent pay increase .
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In addition, some workers who remain with the new company could see their pay increase significantly.
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In previous years, their pay increases operated from April.
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In return, the union says it will forgo pay increases for 1997.
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Strikes An national and indefinite strike of bank workers began on Sept. 12 for pay increases of up to 297 percent.
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Each worker learns every plant job, he says, and with each new job comes a pay increase .
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We don't want to squander that through lax cost control, irresponsible pay increases and things like that.
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The two sides are also at odds over the timing of any pay increase the pilots may receive.
percentage
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Most investigators have observed that H pylori infection causes a greater percentage increase in the postprandial gastrin than fasting gastrin.
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Some examples of percentage increases in dividends over 10 years: McCormick, 400 percent.
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This means adding just a little expanded memory produces a large percentage increase in the amount of memory available for data storage.
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The percentage increase is about the same as nearly all city workers have received over the last nine months.
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The board expects a similar percentage increase in next year's interim dividend from 6.75p to 7p.
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Each is asking for more than a double-digit percentage increase .
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Operating leverage measures the percentage increase in profits resulting from a given percentage increase in sales.
price
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Unfortunately, faced with price increases of up to 25 percent, many of us decided we could live without champagne.
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The success of the price increase also will depend on whether other steelmakers follow.
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The government on June 3 liberalized the prices of liquid fuels, producing price increases of between 70 and 113 percent.
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Kessler said those price increases would probably not be felt by consumers.
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People started shopping hysterically, expecting huge price increases .
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The price deflator measures the size of price increases , and detects whether higher costs drive consumers away from a product.
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In both countries, the concern with the political and economic effects of price increases has led governments to intervene on tariffs.
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He noted California experienced two big gasoline price increases in the 1990s.
rate
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The combination of recession, falling property values, rent and rate increases have proved fatal to the nation's business community.
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Therefore, the report itself is not likely to trigger a rate increase .
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What is the significance of organized resistance to rent or rate increases ?
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The big cable company said it needed the rate increase to pay for past expenses and future investments.
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Building societies would respond to a base rate increase with a hike in their mortgage rates.
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Lockyer warned Republicans that they might not get another chance to block the welfare rate increase .
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The rate increase is doubly painful for societies with large loss-making estate agency chains.
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Insurers learned that the state regulators would, during the panic, give away the store in rate increases .
salary
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He doesn't believe that extra money motivates, whether that money be a bonus, profit sharing or a salary increase .
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As a result, both candidates for governor are considering earmarking some state aid for salary increases .
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The decision of the Tribunal is that a salary increase of 1.69% should apply for 12 months from 1st March 1993.
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That means we're overdue for a salary increase in many districts.
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Also included in the budget was a 103 percent general salary increase for workers.
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Few were in the top echelons, and they regularly fell behind their male colleagues in promotions and salary increases .
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The level of salary increases has fallen every year since 1990, when they rose 6. 1 %.
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The state is also threatening to fine the company and to block salary increases for its managers.
tax
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Given the burgeoning budget deficit, there is a very real likelihood of some form of tax increase in the Budget.
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Reduce the deficit through tax increases and some spending restraints.
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Support the possibility of keeping a lid on tax increases .
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The alternative would be deep spending cuts or tax increases -- or some combination of the two.
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Wilson had avoided nearly all tax increases since a record $ 7 billion hike to balance the budget in 1991.
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His first budget, in 1991, contained a $ 7 billion tax increase .
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The amendment would require a two-thirds vote of Congress to pass tax increase measures.
wage
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A formula could be seen as a way to get a fair wage increase and made it easier to deal with differentials.
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Sam Nunn said Thursday that he will support a minimum wage increase and oppose a repeal of the gas tax.
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The health workers were seeking a 100 percent wage increase and improved conditions.
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The average wage increase in industry this spring is slightly below five percent for the first time in four years.
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State minimum wage increase opponents contend that it unfairly disadvantages small businesses and has an adverse competitive impact on many labor-intensive industries.
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Money wage increases are valued in their own right: workers pay no attention to the purchasing power of the money wage.
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They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase .
■ VERB
cause
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This will raise its retailer's costs, so causing an increase in price and reduction in output.
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For most commodities, a rise in income will cause an increase in demand.
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It is this dual defect that causes their considerable sixfold increase in gastrin mediated acid secretion.
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Thiazides may cause a slight increase in magnesium excretion.
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The overheating causes an increase in overall energy consumption of only 7 %.
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When all the chloride is precipitated, further generation of Ag ions causes an increase in conductivity of the solution.
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First, because the source and observer are moving away from each other the doppler effect causes an increase in wavelength.
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This causes an increase in extracellular potassium concentration.
expect
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C Ingle, Ilford Friends and colleagues, most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance.
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Out-of-state students, who already pay three to four times more than residents, can expect to see further increases .
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People started shopping hysterically, expecting huge price increases .
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However, there was little disagreement about an expected increase of the disease in the United States.
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November sales rose an inflation-adjusted 0.5 per cent, about half the expected increase .
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The markets were also pressured Friday by news of bigger-than-#expected increases in industrial production and housing construction during September.
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The board expects a similar percentage increase in next year's interim dividend from 6.75p to 7p.
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Overall, expect a price increase of 1. 4 % this year.
lead
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Finally, there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times.
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More obstruction calls mean more power plays, which will lead to an increase in scoring.
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In the next chapter we show that taking part-time work usually leads to an increase in domestic responsibility.
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Occasionally, a substantially increased platelet or white cell count may lead to apparent increases in plasma potassium concentration.
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Rising incomes have led both to an increase in wealth and an increase in borrowing.
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For example, the huge increase in the number of motor vehicles has led to a massive increase in auto-crimes.
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That would make a mockery of the Kyoto protocol: instead of cuts, it could lead to huge increases of emissions.
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This leads to an increase in the translational momentum of the molecule, which is not quantized.
mark
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Book illustration is a field marked by sharp increases in price over the last two decades.
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The 1995 total marked the second annual increase in a row and exceeded five million for the first time in three years.
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The figures mark a tremendous increase in recycling, from one-in-two cans four years ago to today's rate of two-in-three.
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The depression of 1884 was marked by a large increase in the number of wedding rings pawned.
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Not all data on hip fractures show marked increases in winter.
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All are agreed that this escalation of the 36-year-long civil war will mean a marked increase in deaths.
report
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Estate agents also report a sharp increase in their business in the past couple of months.
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Now the giant builder is reporting a record increase in contracts and is hiring again.
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It took in 400 last year, 500 this; other colleges and schools also report big increases .
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In a six-month period ending in April, the center reported a 24 percent increase in errors.
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It has reported a 77 p.c. increase in complaints and cited pension transfer advice as one of the biggest problem areas.
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Ed Pollard of the Secret Service reported a forty-percent increase in death threats.
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The market reaction was even more bizarre considering Betterware reported an increase in first-half pre-tax profits of 52 percent to £1.12m.
represent
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A decrease in µ represents an increase in polarization, since the range is increasing as µ becomes smaller.
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This represents a 25 % increase over the figure for 1994, which was itself sharply higher than for 1993.
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This represents an increase of £188.63 per month, 39 percent more than in May 1988.
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Salinity has reached 14 parts per thousand which represents a 40 percent increase since 1951.
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This represents an increase of 13.4 per cent compared to the previous year's results.
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The investment by 3i represented a 73% increase over the previous year, which ended at 31 March 1990.
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This years figure of £36.6 million represents an increase of 22% on last years value of £30 million.
▪
Eventhat figure represented a huge increase on previous statistics.
result
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Under such circumstances monopolisation would result in an increase in total surplus.
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Later it was re-thought that recycling might result in reduced increases for garbage service.
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Mr Lamont said a freeze in bills last year would have resulted in substantial increases for many businesses this year.
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Officials have said the bonds will be retired with surplus water system funds and will result in no tax increase .
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This was to result in an overall increase of fifty beds.
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Estais said the 3. 7 percent rise resulted from an increase in sales of low-priced champagnes and wines.
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But both seem extremely problematic and poorly thought out, and if implemented might just result in an increase in infections.
see
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Over the past 12 months, it has seen its membership increase by 26 % to 351.
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Out-of-state students, who already pay three to four times more than residents, can expect to see further increases .
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One moved out of the city centre and has seen business increase at its new premises.
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In addition, some workers who remain with the new company could see their pay increase significantly.
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The island is beginning to see an increase in foreign visitors, but as yet very little development has taken place.
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We were interested in seeing if this increase was significant from the point of view of higher-level processes.
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During the recession Gloucestershire's seen sizable increases in unemployment. 2 years ago the total was just under 8,000.
show
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Despite this diversion the board grew significantly showing an overall increase in income of 20% this year.
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Trade increased by some 11% from the previous year and showed a massive 62% increase over the last decade.
▪
All sociological indicators show that custody increases criminality.
▪
The poor growers A and B showed almost identical increase .
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This year we need to show a 5% increase but are currently 200 down on last year.
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Crime committed every six seconds New figures show an increase in the crime rate to one committed every six seconds.
▪
However the statistics are compiled, an examination of local government expenditure shows a steady increase over the years.
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Mr. Page Although the figures show a dramatic increase , is not my right hon. and learned Friend being characteristically modest?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 12% increase in phone charges
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a 50% increase in the city's health budget
▪
A spokesman for the airline said that much of the cost increase was caused by tightening of security.
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an increase in consumer spending
▪
Improved airline service led to an 18.7% increase in tourists to Africa last year.
▪
Recent wage increases have boosted morale in the company.
▪
There could be fare increases of up to 10%.
▪
There has been a marked increase in opposition to military action.
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There was an increase of about 17% in the urban population between 1910 and 1920.
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There will be no increase in student enrolments this year.
▪
What is the reason for the increase in gang hostility in small towns?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An increase in the traffic marked the end of a timetable period.
▪
Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.
▪
Much of that increase was in the fee portion of student bills, which are set and retained by the individual colleges.
▪
Not all data on hip fractures show marked increases in winter.
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Sure, there has been grumbling over the price increases, but more for sport than out of real pain.
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The Government is also understood to be divided over whether the increase in base rates will provoke a recession.
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Wilson had avoided nearly all tax increases since a record $ 7 billion hike to balance the budget in 1991.