Sentence examples for by a sharp hike from inspiring English sources

For pensioners, already hit by a sharp hike in fuel prices and the cost of water set to go up by around 18% over the next five years, there'll be more bad news when their council tax bills start dropping through their letterboxes next month.

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Cigarette smoking among American teenagers dropped to a record low in 2012, a decline that may have been partly driven by a sharp hike in the federal tobacco tax, researchers said on Wednesday.

Pfizer shares were under pressure after the company reported quarterly net earnings per share of 30 cents, down from 76 cents per share a year earlier, despite a sharp hike in revenue.

In addition, the nausea caused by Lee's chemotherapy led to a sharp hike in the amount of money spent on food and washing powder.

That's a sharp hike in elderly justices even compared to 2010, when a ProPublica review found 12percentt of sitting judges over 80, and 11 over 90.

This was less than during any other year of the administration of President Barack Obama who had presided over a sharp hike in deportations before that.

Result: a sharp 10% hike in the amount of alcohol consumed in Australia, the precise opposite of what was planned.

Specifically, the power producers are being accused of "staging" production shortages, which in turn prompted expensive purchases of emergency supply, to justify a sharp price hike.

The sharp hike in gas prices charged by the Russians has trimmed the pre-2005 double-digit growth, but has also led to greater energy efficiency.

The sharp hike in oil prices is becoming an increasing burden on the German economy, according to the business survey.

We had a sharp recession followed by a sharp recovery in the 1980s.