Sentence examples for a huge hike from inspiring English sources

And to pay for it all, a huge hike in tax.

The gas price cut comes after a period of freezing winter weather which raised the spectre of a huge hike in energy bills.

The debate over the budget, a huge hike in the security bill and what should be contained within the £9.3bn public funding envelope will go on.

Last June, Seattle's City Council voted to raise the minimum wage from $9.32 an hour to fifteen dollars an hour by the end of 2017 for large businesses, a huge hike by the standard of previous raises.

Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week.

But it enjoyed a bumper Christmas, thanks to a huge hike in its marketing spend, adding 215,000 customers in the last quarter of 2005, its best since 2002.

Now we can see the result of that huge hike in fees: a fall of nearly 10% in student applications in 2012 in England (where the fees will bite hardest), which the government has blamed on everything except the rise in fees.

And so it was that last year the chancellor slapped a huge tax hike on insurance cover.

That's a huge tax hike for lower- and middle-income families, without, of course, the kind of benefits that European countries pay for with their VATs.

Reports claim Milan offered the player not only a huge salary hike to return but also a guaranteed starting place alongside Kaká next season.

Most of the players have gone on vacation, but Manchester City has been buying overseas players, and Wayne Rooney, regardless of his almost anonymous performances in South Africa, anticipates returning to Manchester United with a huge salary hike to keep him.