The phrase "ago increased" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be a combination of two separate ideas that do not logically fit together in this form.
Example: "The population increased five years ago."
Alternatives: "increased previously" or "rose in the past."
The addition of only 0.1 wt% AGO increased the Young's modulus of the PP by more than 70%.
The most recent change, five years ago, increased the angle of the banking from 12 to 20 degrees.
Sinkhole claims in Hernando, Pasco, and Hillsborough counties — the three counties that make up the state's "Sinkhole Alley," and the third of which swallowed Jeffrey Bush several weeks ago — increased, respectively, by three hundred and seventy-five per cent, a hundred and eighty-seven per cent, and three hundred and eighty-four per cent.
That article described a company that paid $100,000 for the rights to a drug developed decades ago, increased the price of the drug overnight to $23,000 from $1,650 a vial (and now to more than $28,000), has manufacturing costs that account for only 1 percent of the drug's price — and saw the drug's sales total nearly $350 million in the first nine months of 2012.
The team has increased Prime selection by 75% since launching the program nine months ago, increased fulfillment capacity for sellers by 26% already this year, announced 18 Indian Original TV series, and just last week introduced a Fire TV Stick optimized for Indian customers with integrated voice search in English and Hindi," he said.
IR microspectroscopy has been possible ever since the introduction of interferometers using Fourier transformation some 30 years ago increased the sensitivity of IR spectroscopy by orders of magnitude.
Second, the Legislature should do what it failed to do a long time ago: increase the state's gasoline tax and dedicate the extra money to transportation infrastructure.
But banks are not lending as much as they did five years ago, increasing the amount of equity that firms are having to stump up (see chart 3).
Advances in refrigerated shipping and mass distribution have made it possible for fruit and vegetables to enter markets that were logistically out of reach a few years ago, increasing the competitive pressure on local growers.
But the total dollar increase is about $1,300, and families are paying several thousand dollars more than they were just a few years ago, increasing more than $5,000 since 2009.
Asian investors have been eyeing Meriton, the company he founded 50 years ago, increasing speculation of a sale of all or part of his 100% stake in the next year or so.
