Sentence examples for raises of almost from inspiring English sources

Other significant pay increases this year have included raises of almost 10percentt for public school teachers and administrators in Washington and raises of almost 30percentt for nurses, who are still in high demand nationwide, at Tenet Healthcare.

The UN held a donors' conference in March and raised pledges of almost $10 billion.

Listed as one of the country's most overpaid CEOs by Bloomberg, Stumpf earned $22.9 million in 2012, a raise of almost 16percentt from his 2011 pay of $19.8 million.

The finance panel helps dictate how the government raises almost all of its money, and spends nearly half of it.

Raising that cost would raise the cost of almost everything that businesses do.

In addition, she said she had resigned from the National Council of the Whitney Museum, which raises almost half of the museum's budget.

In comparison, the San Francisco Ballet receives nearly 46percentt of its revenues from donors; American Ballet Theater raises almost 40percentt of its funds from gifts and grants.

A startup that's operating in stealth mode raises an almost stunning amount of money before it releases a product.

Those 20 campuses raised a total of almost $7.7 billion — or more than a quarter of all giving to colleges and universities, the council said.

In today's dollars, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibilities Act and an accompanying small increase in gas taxes would have raised the equivalent of almost $1 trillion dollars over 10 years.

He has raised the hackles of almost all his colleagues.