Sentence examples for rises worth from inspiring English sources

Ten FTSE 100 leaders enjoyed combined pay rises worth nearly £100m last year, including a sixfold increase for Tony Pidgley, chairman of housing group Berkeley Homes.

It aims to keep the budget deficit below 10% of GDP this year (the highest in the European Union), and to achieve balance by 2013, via spending cuts and tax rises worth 8% of GDP.

The government is on track to spend 12% of GDP more than it takes in taxes this year, even after spending cuts and tax rises worth €14.5 billion ($19.6 billion).

Spending cuts and tax rises worth about €11 billion ($15 billion) aim to bring the budget deficit down to 2.8% of GDP next year, and to balance the books in 2015.

The most famous line in the poem (and the only one in capitals) is: "SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESSED," which may be taken as Johnson's motto at this time.

Mr Milburn promised that the UK's 24,000 senior hospital doctors would get salary rises worth up to £20,000 over 10 years in return for limits on the amount of private work they carry out.

The unions in local government are seeking a pay rise worth £1 an hour.

Senior MPs today queued up to renounce a pay rise worth almost £1,000 amid fears of a public backlash.

Royal Mail workers will receive a three-year pay rise worth around 9% and legally-binding employment protections under a "landmark" agreement.

People earning less than £21,000 will will each receive a flat pay rise worth £250 in each of the two years.

The Communication Workers Union said its members backed the agreement, which includes a three-year wage rise worth 6.9%, job security and improved industrial relations, by two to one.