Sentence examples for percent hike from inspiring English sources

That's a pretty ridiculous 1,300 percent hike since 1986.

Berlin is highlighting its eight percent hike in military outlays--which still leaves Germany spending only about 1.22percentt of GDP on its armed forces.

Though there was a momentary dip in pro-ED terms post-ban, it wasn't long before users had created 672 mutations of the tags with subtle variations like "thynspo" or "skinnyyy," amounting to a nearly 4,000 percent hike in tags.

Fifteen percent hikes for each of 5 years "built expectations and momentum that set the agency up for disappointment when the doubling was done," he writes.

UPDATE: Turing Pharmaceuticals has reportedly said it will lower the cost of its drug Daraprim following public backlash over the 5,000 percent price hike.

Of the 235 who received a pay raise in 2010, 225 of them received more than a five percent pay hike.

In 1969 the turnpike commission announced a 75-percent toll hike, the first such increase for cars.

"I feel like they had kind of a good thing going why mess with it?" But Urquhart didn't think a two-percent tax hike would be a "deal breaker" to energy companies, as long as they continue to turn a profit.

Foreign and domestic companies will also have to shell out marginally more after the finance minister hiked all taxes by a percent to raise funds for education.

In his first term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg rammed through an 18.5-percent property tax hike.

In the case of the United States Open, 25-percent share would mean a hike in prize money from about $25 million to more than $60 million.