Sentence examples for a fourth higher from inspiring English sources

The oil is refined here by a partly state-owned company and sold at prices almost a fourth higher than in neighboring Caribbean countries.

For example, the plan allows Congress to add a fourth, higher tax bracket above 35percentthatat could be used to decrease the tax benefit to the wealthiest households.

In a 1974 Guardian interview he said: "In Lucky Old Sun in the middle of the bridge going into the last eight bars, I come in a fourth higher, which is startling - yet in this song it seems natural.

The discovery could have been made, for instance, in pipes or flutes or stringed instruments: the tone of a plucked string held at its middle is an octave higher than that of the whole string; the tone of a string held at the 2/3 point is a fifth higher; and that of one held at the 3/4 point is a fourth higher.

It is built in F or a fourth higher in B♭, or, more commonly, as a double horn, introduced about 1900 by Fritz Kruspe, providing for instantaneous choice, by means of a thumb valve, of two tonalities, usually F and B♭ or B♭ and A. This choice allows technical benefits such as greater certainty on the higher notes.

Without a fourth, higher bracket, though, the plan would almost certainly cut taxes for the richest Americans ― something Trump has said repeatedly he would not do.

The company also said wholesale prices were a third higher than a year ago.

Unemployment in August was 11.3%, a third higher than a year earlier, the biggest jump for 30 years.

A third higher is more normal.

Wage settlements are running a third higher than expected.

Child poverty is a third higher in London than the rest of England as a whole.