Sentence examples for hefty jump from inspiring English sources

But, given that the rate was 6% a year ago, that is still a hefty jump.

David Moyes will now be given significant funds to rebuild his squad in the summer after the club's latest financial results showed another hefty jump in commercial revenues in the second half of last year.

The last one looked good, so they saw a pretty hefty stock jump.

Those are hefty price jumps.

The Pactiv Corporation, which makes Hefty trash bags, jumped 5.4 percent, to $32.58, after it agreed to be bought by Reynolds Group Holdings in a transaction valued at about $6 billion.

Mr. Abe has galvanized markets by encouraging bold monetary measures to beat deflation, and hefty government spending to jump-start the economy.

Evidence of the increase in business travel to Rio is reflected in its hotel rates — which jumped a hefty 13% in 2011 compared to 2010.

I thought you were trying to make the world a BETTER place?" Now, my Dad has a bit of a dramatic flare (might be where I get it from), generally tends towards reading "liberal" blogs as his primary news source, and likes to quickly jump to big hefty conclusions, but I was not prepared for the sort of reaction I got from him.

In the fiscal year ended last July, that percentage jumped to 32.5%, and in the quarter ended last October, it jumped again to a hefty 35.6%.

THE most recent unemployment figures have hit Washington like a brick: the unemployment rate jumped to 5.5% in May, a hefty half-point hike from April.

"These are fairly hard-nosed men and as they jumped to their feet these large hefty men were" — she pauses as she recollects — "crying".