Sentence examples for rise to close from inspiring English sources

Blanchflower believes that unemployment could rise to "close to 10% by the end of 2009", with perhaps over three million unemployed by 2010.

I was especially struck last week by the claim in the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee's Inflation Report that "pay growth is projected to rise to close to 4 per cent by late 2016".

"In this background, we forecast government debt to rise to close to 41% of GDP by fiscal 2017 and to just under 45% by the end of the decade.

Shares in the fast-food chain gained $3.10, a 6.1% rise, to close at $54.30.

GE also enjoyed a 1.2%, or 47 cent, rise to close at $38.87.

In case of acquired resistance, tumor stem cell with drug-resistant variants gives rise to close descendants and produces a population of multidrug-resistant tumor.

The annual cost has risen to close to $1.5 billion.

The husband had paid nothing and his maintenance arrears had now risen to "close to £1m".

The stock rose to close at $80, giving the NYSE Group a market value of $12.6 billion.

The result is that the country's unemployment rate has risen to close to 18 percent, from 12.7 percent in 2011.

The paper boasts a weekday circulation of almost 1.6 million, rising to close to 2.5 million on Saturdays.