"increase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For instance, from 1980 through 1984, a period that included two recessions, each percentage-point increase in gross domestic product growth translated into a 0.61 percent gain in jobs.
- But since 1995, every percentage-point increase in economic growth has resulted in just 0.10 percent more jobs.
- Senator Abraham suggests that it might lead to a full percentage-point increase.
- The new level was the highest percentage-point increase since the survey was first conducted in 1994.
- Last year, 72.2 percent of its students read above grade level, while only 57 percent did the year before, a 15.2 percentage-point increase.
- Analysts say that for every percentage-point increase in interest rates, 250,000 to 300,000 families are priced out of the market.
- At U.C.L.A. they account for 33 percent, a 0.8 percentage-point increase from last year.
- In fact, the yield on the December futures indicates they expect as much as half-a- percentage-point increase by then.
- As a rule of thumb, economists estimate that every percentage-point increase in rates prices 250,000 to 300,000 families out of the housing market.
- Each percentage-point increase in interest rates on consumer savings cost the bank $145 million.
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