Sentence examples for increase for the first from inspiring English sources

The University of California will lay the groundwork for a possible tuition increase for the first time in six years at a two-day regents meeting beginning Wednesday.

Bucking a trend of sales declines by many luxury goods retailers, the Burberry Group reported a 15percentt sales increase for the first half of the year and said it would open eight new stores later this year.

There is no increase for the first year, when workers would receive the ratification bonus.

The increase for the first phase of interleague games this season was 15percentt.

Metro will not pay a wage increase for the first year — July 2016 to June 2017.

In that dispute, officers received no wage increase for the first two years of their current five-year contract.

An extra 50 police officers have been drafted into Molenbeek to deal with petty crime, leading to a threefold increase for the first half of this year in arrests for minor offences.

The index for new orders fell below 50 -- meaning that more companies reported a drop than reported an increase -- for the first time since December 1998, when recessions in many Asian countries held down demand for American products.

The growth reported today for the second quarter, combined with the 1.7percentt increase for the first quarter, put the nation's annual rate of growth at 1.5percentt for the first half of 1990.

Forecasts are for a rise of 0.7 percent in the second quarter, on top of the 1.3 percent increase for the first quarter.

In the late 1990s, many commentators claimed that spending was too low, and the defense budget began to increase for the first time since the mid-1980s.