"increase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He said there would be a 5 percent cutback in the use of oil and an unspecified increase in the price of gas.
- The proposal calls for an as-yet unspecified increase in the percentage paid by insurers and a hundredfold rise, to $500 million, in the amount that puts the program into effect.
- Prime Minister Azeddine Laraki, in a statement to Parliament, pledged unspecified increases in salaries and social benefits.
- Only weeks ago, an increase in the minimim wage looked likely after Vice President Bush endorsed an unspecified increase.
- He offered only a few new programs - an unspecified increase in the minimum wage, an increased effort to identify illegal immigrants, a campaign against teen-age pregnancy, an incremental approach to health-care reform.
- They also suggested an unspecified increase in the Federal minimum wage of $3.35 an hour.
- Republicans favor a smaller and as yet unspecified increase but so far lack the Senate votes to secure it.
- BILL CLINTON is maybe, sort of, leaning in favor of an unspecified increase in the minimum wage.
- EDUCATION Favors significant but unspecified increases in Government money for student-loan programs.
- Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York, for example, after years of refusing to do so, has just called for an unspecified increase in the state's gasoline tax.
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