Sentence examples for degrees rose from inspiring English sources

The gap between the less advantaged and the more advantaged widened as the gap between high-school graduates and dropouts and Americans with college and graduate degrees rose.

Annual awards of doctoral degrees rose sevenfold between 1996 and 2006.

While the mean income of white women with college degrees rose 48percentt from 1980 to 1997 and the income of Hispanic women was up 42percentthethe income of black women with college degrees rose only 21percentt.

Achieving higher wages also requires a greater commitment to education; wages for those with college degrees rose 1.4 percent between 2000 and 2010, after inflation.

From 1990 to 2000, the share of African-Americans in the 24- to 29-year-old group with college degrees rose to 17.5percentt from 13.4percentt.

A study by two sociologists, Julie Phillips of Rutgers University and Ellen Idler of Emory University, indicates that the suicide rate for middle-aged people, notably baby boomers without college degrees, rose from 1999 to 2005.

And those summer temperatures that had risen above 100 degrees on the Rose Bowl turf had dipped to freezing in the Southern Hemisphere's late autumn.

It takes two weeks to build a big pot by coiling and molding the gray clay, and another week after it dries to fire it at 2,000 degrees to a pinky rose.

When daytime temperatures stay below 80 degrees Fahrenheit, give mini roses 2 gallons (7.6 L) of water each week and medium-sized shrub roses 3 to 4 gallons (11.4 to 15.1 L) each week.

The left-handed sophomore was 15 of 21 for 151 yards in the second half and led the Bruins on scoring drives of 80, 80 and 85 yards, wearing down the Wolverines as much as the 110-degree heat inside the Rose Bowl.

From time to time during the rehearsal we glanced at the thermometer In four minutes the mercury in this rose from 72 degrees to 94.