Sentence examples for an average rise from inspiring English sources

Wage negotiations resulted in an average rise of 3.5%.

Executive programs, tailored specifically to working professionals, saw an average rise in applications of 3 percent.

He said that compares with an average rise of about 30percentt for all businesses across the country.

That was down from an average rise of 95,000 jobs a month in the final three months of 2007.

Rival Npower followed with an average rise of 8.8 per cent for gas and 9.1 per cent for electricity.

Average prices in the capital increased by 3.7% over the year, compared with an average rise across the country as a whole of 4.5%.

In the public sector, the ONS reported a 2% average rise.

"The European land temperature over the past decade has been on average 1.3°C higher than in the pre-industrial era, compared with a global average rise of about 0.8°C.

By 2050 they estimate the world must cut its emissions by 80% compared with 1990 levels to limit global warming to a 2C average rise.

This year's increases were heralded by a 8.5percentt average rise for Federal employees, said Paul Frontsin, research director of the nonprofit Employee Benefit Retirement Institute in Washington.

So, while I accept that a 1% average rise is tough, it is also fair to those who work to pay the taxes that will fund it".