Sentence examples for increase equivalent to from inspiring English sources

After a teacher got a toothache, Ms. Jordan learned that teachers expected dental insurance, and would rather have it than a salary increase equivalent to what it cost.

Professional forecasters estimate that a tax increase equivalent to 1 percent of the nation's economic output usually reduces gross domestic product by about 1 percent after 18 months.

Dr David Bennett, the chief executive of Monitor, the NHS's economic regulator, said a real-terms increase equivalent to 1.5% of the service's budget was necessary to produce "an NHS that really is fit for the 21st century".

What if the housing boom now turns to bust According to estimates by The Economist, the total value of residential property in developed economies rose by more than $30 trillion over the past five years, to over $70 trillion, an increase equivalent to 100% of those countries' combined GDPs.

Values for slope increase (equivalent to the second derivative with respect to cycle) were obtained by subtracting the previous cycle's slope value from the current cycle's slope value.

Studies using CT report coefficients of variation between 1.5% and 2.5% for tissue cross-sectional area and <1% for muscle attenuation [ 49], with each HU increase equivalent to a 1% increase in lipid concentration when assessed microscopically [ 17].

The injection of more monetary stimulus into the US economy can be seen as an insurance policy against the risk posed by a so-called "fiscal cliff" which the US faces at the start of 2013 when deep spending cuts and tax increases equivalent to a fiscal tightening of around US$400bn (2.7% of GDP) are scheduled to kick in.

While the expression of a dominant-negative form of AMPK prevented the lifespan increases driven by heterozygous mutations in AMP biosynthetic enzymes, animals engineered to specifically exhibit AMPK gain-of-function in metabolic tissues also had lifespan increases equivalent to those observed in long-lived fly mutants.

This increase is equivalent to that obtained by addition of 10% newborn calf serum.

The fire precept increase is equivalent to £1.26 a year for a band D property, while the police increase is equivalent to £3.60.

Figure 9 revealed the maximum increase in oedema volume in rats receiving no treatment (negative control group) after 13 days with mean increase value equivalent to 16.34%, and then a gradual decrease followed reaching 15.23% after 18 days.