Sentence examples for price escalated from inspiring English sources

Along the way, the project's price escalated to $40 million.

The price escalated in million-dollar increments so quickly that it was hard to tell where the bids were coming from.

The bid battle for Pfizer Nutrition heated up last week when the price escalated from $10bn after Danone reportedly raised its offer.

Instead of the £305,000 off-the-peg equivalent, the price escalated to £354,500 for each bus – unfortunate timing when London has to make the case to preserve its transport budget in the chancellor's spending review.

In the New York metropolitan area, home prices escalated especially rapidly in the late 1990's, federal housing figures show.

Since petroleum prices escalated in the early 1970s, there has been increased concern with the fuel efficiency of different types of transportation.

But as uranium prices escalated in recent years, there was a rush to stake claims on federal lands just beyond the park.

It is only when various socialist schemes tried to divorce the costs of services from the prices users pay that those services deteriorated and prices escalated.

From 2003 to 2007, as oil prices escalated, downtown office rents rose by two and a half times, to 39.60 Canadian dollars a square foot, from 15.25.

As prices escalated, the capitalization rate — the initial rate of return on the buildings — declined, sometimes to levels of only 5percentt or less.

When she and her husband, the screenwriter and director Michael Maren, decided to move to Brooklyn in the late 1990s, they bought a town house in gentrifying Prospect Heights right before yoga studios arrived and prices escalated.