Sentence examples for increased pretty much from inspiring English sources

If we look back over the past 20 years, it is pretty clear that, prior to 2007, electricity prices increased pretty much in line with overall inflation: But this is a case where one can easily fall into the error of thinking that correlation equals causation – and certainly Hockey and Tony Abbott have been very good at persuading people to commit that error.

"UN forecasts of 1980 predicted it was going to bump into a ceiling and stop increasing next week, but it didn't happen; [it] carried on increasing pretty much as before".

IMDB did a study suggesting that average movie run times have been increasing pretty much from the start.

To pass such an increase pretty much requires putting it in another, more popular, bill.

The companies with the biggest increases represented pretty much every retailing sector.

That's because the Fed has indicated in its ruminations that future rate increases are pretty much on automatic pilot, i.e., 25 basis points every time it meets, which is every two months.

After 30 years of near-continuous increases, British drinking pretty much levelled out between 1980 and 1995 – the nation's thirst reined in, perhaps, by the high unemployment that gripped the country.

"Last year we really took a beating" in part because of war jitters, he said, but this year the company has seen a 10percentt increase in sales "pretty much across the country," adding that it was "the first time since 9/11 that we've been up in every spot".

Looking at Darling, he said: "It is so wrong when there is so much waste in government – when you yourself have identified £11bn of money that your government is wasting – that instead of tackling that waste now you want to increase the taxes on pretty much every person in this room and the people watching at home.

Style He was on occasion more trainee-TV presenter than trainee-chancellor To Darling: Instead of tackling waste now and stopping wasting people's money, you want to increase the taxes on pretty much every single person here in this room and people watching at home.

The increased use of NDAs in pretty much every deal that is struck between music services and record labels (and the PRS) has become a huge thorn in the side of artists and songwriters – and their managers.