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Discover LudwigThe phrase "increase only" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to specify that something should be increased without any other changes or conditions. Example: "The budget for the project will increase only if we receive additional funding."
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"The fare increase only gives them $38 million".
Car owners discovered the increase only when they went to fill their tanks.
Herbicide-resistant corn would increase only to 12percentt of acreage from 11percentt, it predicted.
But next year it may increase only another 100 million cubic feet a day, he said.
Yet despite the sharp increase, only 270 landlords were successfully prosecuted during that period.
The catch: the pay increase only applies to 90,000 workers at McDonald's owned stores.
The bonuses increase only for every two years of experience, rather than for every year.
This would allow one federal program's financing to increase only if another program's budget were cut.
Wall Street economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected claims to increase only slightly, to 484,000.
Wages increase only with an increase in capital or a decrease in the number of workers.
They agreed to the VAT increase only because they will get half the proceeds.
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