Sentence examples for be a steep increase from inspiring English sources

The best solution would be a steep increase in production by oil producers, especially Saudi Arabia.

The immediate effect is likely to be a steep increase in oil prices, benefiting Russia's oil-driven economy.

Your Sept. 13 editorial "The Latest Oil Shock" states that "the best solution" to controlling high oil prices "would be a steep increase in production by oil producers, especially Saudi Arabia".

Protest against Bakiyev's increasingly authoritarian policies and accusations of corruption both played a role in the outbreak of violent unrest in April 2010, but the more immediate cause appeared to be a steep increase in the cost of utilities.

The end result would be a steep increase in food insecurity and hunger, in a nation that's already at or near the top of the charts for these problems when compared to other industrialized nations.

In the past two years there has been a steep increase in the rate of house building.

Adding to the government's troubles is a steep increase in terrorist attacks.

The other difference in post-Gaddafi Libya was a steep increase in racism toward black Africans and Christians, he said.

Is crude, for example, responsible for what anecdotal reports say is a steep increase in turtles in Mississippi and Louisiana waters?

"It is a steep increase to go from 20 percent to 50 percent wind in just a few years time, so there is a challenge there," Mr. Eldrup said.

In Tulsa, Okla., where there was a steep increase in drugstore robberies last year, at least one pharmacist now requires customers to be buzzed in the door.