Sentence examples for increase was equivalent to from inspiring English sources

The Reagan tax increase was equivalent to $5.3 billion in 2003 dollars.

This increase was equivalent to extending the school year by five days.

GDP fell by 2.0% in the year to the first quarter, a long way short of its spectacular 5.6% growth in 2000.American workers received a pay rise of 3.2% in the year to May, down from 4.2% a year earlier; the increase is equivalent to a 1.6% rise in real terms.Japan may have emerged from its worst recession since the second world war.

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.

This increase is equivalent to a 3.1% improvement.

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

For upper body strength, increases were equivalent to a percentile increase of 19.5%.

These increases were equivalent to 2.4 DE for milk yield, 2.3 DE for fat yield and 2.4 DE for protein yield.

In the study of Jones and colleagues [ 62] management to increase lactate clearance was equivalent to targeting specific ScvO2 values in septic shock.

In currently exposed lead workers, cross-sectional associations showed that a 5-μg/dL increase in blood lead was equivalent to an increase of 1.05 years in age (Schwartz et al. 2001).

The original derivation of the Charlson index was scaled so that a single point increase in the score was equivalent to a reduction in survival by a decade.