Sentence examples for risen to close from inspiring English sources

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

The Government was widely criticised in December when it announced the security costs had risen to close to £1bn, at a comparatively late stage in the day.

By the start of 2012, the figure had risen to close to forty-two per cent of G.D.P. That's not quite at Scandinavian levels of spending, but it represented a significant jump.

Business conditions have risen to close to a three-year high, a private survey showed on Tuesday, while business confidence is up for the first time in four months.

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

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

While movie attendance in theaters tumbled, the American market share rose to close to 90percentt by the mid-1990's.

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

That number rises to closer to 35percentt in both Central and East Harlem.