Sentence examples for hefty hikes from inspiring English sources

Those hefty hikes have in turn caused a sharp increase in the number of people leaving Westchester to buy homes in Putnam, Rockland and other neighboring counties, he said.

Both Sarkozy, who chairs the Union for a Popular Movement, and his socialist rival Ségolène Royal had made research into campaign themes, and both had promised hefty hikes in science and higher education budgets.

The China Iron and Steel Association is worried about hefty hikes in ore prices, as well as shipping rates, at a time when soaring demand in China has already put intense upward pressure on prices.

Sniffing out good powder usually requires early mornings and a hefty hike, but in Stranda it's accessible from the lifts.

The Department of Space, which is gearing up for its second Moon mission in March, and is working on a project to study the Sun in 2019 20, gets a hefty hike.

The move to protect polar bears is appreciated for one thing, however, and that's a hefty hike in the price for a dead one.

The headline figure disguises much heftier hikes on some routes, several of which will see double-digit mark-ups.Fiscal austerity is not solely to blame, even if, like most of the rest of Whitehall, the Department for Transport which supports and supervises both the train-operating firms and Network Rail, the company that runs and maintains the tracks must soon find big spending cuts.

The bad news is that job creation, as widely feared, slowed as 2013 began and some hefty tax hikes took effect.

If a private company took over, only the state's public utility board, which has limited power, could intercede to mitigate hefty rate hikes.

On Friday, E.I. DuPont de Nemours reported flourishing sales within its North American agricultural seed business, which came on the back of hefty price hikes.

Profits more than doubled for a crop of agribusiness companies that reported Thursday, but investors seemed unsure whether hefty guidance hikes were too good to be true.