Sentence examples for imported increased from inspiring English sources

The merchandise trade surplus, the measure of all goods exported minus those imported, increased to 1.144 trillion yen $10.79 billionn), the Ministry of Finance said.

Consumption of long fibre pulp, all of which was imported, increased by 2 percent from 1999.

Brazilian colonists, facing a compounding labour shortage in the mid-16th century, imported increasing numbers of African slaves.

According to the Marine Stewardship Council, imports increased 1,200 percentt last year while restaurant chain Little Chef recently began advertising hoki and chips.

In 1791, landowners fleeing the slave revolt in Haiti began developing coffee, cotton and sugar cane plantations, importing increasing numbers of slaves.

The company had already been importing increasing amounts to meet higher gas demand and make up for shortages, he said.

However, industrial fishing has depleted native stocks and developing regions such as Africa see falling harvests, forcing them to import increasing amounts of seafood from developed nations.

The cost of petroleum imports increased 4.1 percent.

Exports increased by £0.1bn and imports increased by £2.6bn.

In China, yacht imports increased threefold from 2009 to 2010.

Exports rose 14.7 percent from a year ago, while imports increased 16.8 percent.