Sentence examples for increases barely from inspiring English sources

But there's little cause for celebration: the increases barely make a dent in the weakest hiring cycle in modern history.

Such increases barely offset inflation, the highest in Latin America at 32percentt; food-price inflation has soared even higher, reaching 52percentt.

With an agreement to prevent the so-called fiscal cliff of sharp spending cuts and tax increases barely two weeks old, Mr Obama faces another budget showdown with congressional Republicans.

Meanwhile, around the country the economy shows signs of weakening, with unemployment continuing to rise, wage increases barely able to keep pace with inflation, and Australia's net disposable income per head the best measure of living standards dropping by 1.2percentt.

Since 2000, wages of German workers have increased barely more than efficiency has grown, an enormous advantage in global markets.

Though surprising, the income numbers were not entirely inconsistent with recent data from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis, which found that per capita personal income in the Bronx increased barely, if at all, between 1989 and 1999.

Industrywide, guitar sales increased barely 1% in 1996, while units shipped fell for the first time in seven years.

Over all, the state's leftward lean has increased just barely because as parts of the Philadelphia suburbs moved left, the old mining and mill towns in southwestern Pennsylvania moved right.

For years the journalists had got by with wage increases of barely 1%, after higher health-care and pension contributions were subtracted.

Some of the increases are barely noticed and usually accepted as benign, like the substantial growth in the number of political appointments the President now makes in the executive branch and in the size of the White House staff.

Inflation-adjusted consumer spending in the second quarter barely budged, increasing just 0.1 percent at an annual rate, the Commerce Department report showed.