The phrase "a pattern of raises" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the frequency or structure of salary increases within a company or organization.
Example: "The company has established a pattern of raises that rewards employees based on their performance and tenure."
Alternatives: "a trend of salary increases" or "a system of pay raises".
He puddles paint into the convexities of deformed canvases or fills the cracks between glass tiles and then removes the tiles, leaving a pattern of raised grout lines.
The plan has alarmed some business leaders, who argue that it could drive shoppers away, and some community activists, who complain that lawmakers have fallen into a pattern of raising fees instead of making difficult decisions to rein in costs.
In light of the financial crisis and economic downturn, some of the union's members feared that the city would insist on giving District Council 37 lower raises than several other municipal unions have received, but the settlement generally followed the 4-percent-a-year pattern of raises that the city's other civilian unions have received in recent months.
Despite a pattern of cases raising similar issues, the police have hidden behind protracted legal processes, done the bare minimum to co-operate with investigations and refused to admit wrongdoing.
On the wall above an enormous bowl of fruit is a painting, a dense pattern of raised vertical lines in deep blue, red, green and yellow, done in Lee's signature palette-knife style.
Some Clinton donors said yesterday that they did not expect the Hsu matter to hurt Mrs. Clinton unless a pattern of problematic fund-raising or compromised donors emerged, which would raise questions about the campaign's vetting of donors.
But Republicans in Congress who investigated the affair called it part of a pattern of Democratic fund-raising abuses.
For shared cycle-ways and footpaths, a horizontal pattern of raised lines across the pavement indicates the footpath side, whereas raised lines running along the direction of travel indicate the side to be used by cyclists.
Other analyses, examining cancer incidence in children living close to overhead powerlines (Bunch et al, 2014) have found a similar pattern of raised risks evident in earlier decades (Draper et al, 2005) reducing over a similar time span.
Cattle raising largely has replaced the traditional herding of sheep and goats in the western mountains, while a pattern of sheep and horse raising prevails in the eastern ranges; a few yaks and Bactrian camels also are raised in the east.
