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The phrase "marginal rise" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to a small or slight increase, and it can be used in various contexts, such as economics, statistics, and general descriptions of changes or trends. Example 1: "The stock market experienced a marginal rise yesterday, with the S&P 500 index increasing by just 0.5%." Example 2: "Despite the overall decline in consumer spending, there has been a marginal rise in sales of luxury goods." Example 3: "The country's GDP showed a marginal rise of 1% in the first quarter, indicating a slow but steady recovery."
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How can this be, when the figures show a drop-off in starts and only a marginal rise in completions at a time when a dominant player in that market – the social housing sector – is being closed down.
The company target is for female employees to fill 25% of leadership roles, which would mark a marginal rise from mid-2014, when Twitter revealed that 21% of the company's leadership positions were occupied by women.
At the same time, the UK government was considering a broad bill that would hit the airline sector; Gordon Brown, then chancellor, had tried to discourage flying with a marginal rise in air passenger duty.
According to the annual Female FTSE Board report from Cranfield University School of Management, the proportion of women on the boards of FTSE-100 companies is only 12.5%, a marginal rise on the previous year.
The minutes indicated that there was a robust debate between the doves and hawks, with the former pointing to the lack of inflation – supported by today's release of the latest consumer price index (CPI), which showed only a marginal rise in the costs of food, gasoline and other staples over the month.
Mr Coleman's remarks came after House of Fraser, which owns the Army & Navy, Dickins & Jones and DH Evans chains, posted a 33.4 per cent slump in 1998 pre-tax profits to pounds 19.3m despite a marginal rise in like-for like sales.
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Furious at the marginal pay rise – from 200 to 225 Haitian gourdes (£2.76 to £3.11) for an eight-hour day – some protesters vandalised garment factories in the main industrial park, prompting the owners to close them to close for a few days on the grounds of security concerns.
Therefore, this marginal temperature rise suggested that the thermal injury could be neglected in this study.
The results showed hydraulic stability, consistent pH behavior, marginal temperature rise (<5 °C) and overall safe and predictable performance under diverse conditions.
The no progress scenario shows the typical path for the Hotelling rule, where the resource price and marginal revenue rise over time.
Notably, upregulation of STAT3 in response to the second pulse was substantially reduced (33.51% of pulse 1 response), whereas we only observed a marginal mRNA rise for NOS3 (1.39% of pulse 1 response).
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