Sentence examples for huge hikes from inspiring English sources

The new progressive system means small increases in price won't trigger huge hikes in stamp duty fees.

Passengers facing huge hikes in train fares were today promised hundreds of new carriages after the Government committed itself to an £8 billion package of new rail schemes.

He did nothing to check the huge hikes in grain prices, Economic "modernization" led household and village reserves to be transferred to central depots using recently built railroads.

The downgrade triggered huge hikes in interest and principal for Jefferson County.* Today, the county is broke; according to The Birmingham News, it may run out of cash by July.

"These kinds of huge hikes in home values in London mean that Sadiq Khan will now face a serious challenge to deliver his promise of increased affordable housing in the city," Gill said.

Some items, like eggs, even became more expensive out of terrible luck: A bird flu outbreak caused the country to kill 17 million chickens, which led to huge hikes in egg prices.

And to pay for it all, a huge hike in tax.

The gas price cut comes after a period of freezing winter weather which raised the spectre of a huge hike in energy bills.

But it enjoyed a bumper Christmas, thanks to a huge hike in its marketing spend, adding 215,000 customers in the last quarter of 2005, its best since 2002.

The debate over the budget, a huge hike in the security bill and what should be contained within the £9.3bn public funding envelope will go on.

Last June, Seattle's City Council voted to raise the minimum wage from $9.32 an hour to fifteen dollars an hour by the end of 2017 for large businesses, a huge hike by the standard of previous raises.