Sentence examples for a nice increase from inspiring English sources
"a nice increase" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something positive that has increased in size, amount, or value. For example, "I'm glad to see my bank account has had a nice increase this month."
Indeed, we saw a nice increase in housing starts in June.
"On first glance it is a nice increase, but you have to look closer," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst for S.& P. Indices.
That's a nice increase from the 285-horse, 3.5-liter engine of the base Edge, but the Sport weighs more than 4,400 pounds and its combined city-highway rating is a middling 19 m.p.g.
The 3.3% raise is "a nice increase for NIH.
But OPEC has still enjoyed a nice increase, and its members are hoping to get used to it.
Analysts are predicting the U.S. economy added 55,000 jobs in January, which would be a nice increase over December's increase of only 18,000.
It's as if they met in the men's room of the Waldorf-Astoria and decided the number for 2005 was $35 million, a nice percentage increase over 2004.
In the future, search will continue to be a "key area of investment for Yahoo," Mayer said, and its "search alliance" partnership with Microsoft has led to some "nice increases in our key metrics".
"It had a nice double-digit increase".
But, with the exception of a nice 14% sales increase in Macs and iBooks in the June quarter, Apple's core Mac line has remained flat.
That's a factor which may well rile civil liberties advocates, but it could help Microsoft make a nice return on its increased investments–an increase which rattled investors last week.
