Sentence examples for rising at a rate from inspiring English sources

Drug costs alone are rising at a rate of 18percentt a year.

The amount spent on purchases is rising at a rate of 1.9percentt a year, which is lower than it was a few months ago but is still close to historical averages.

House prices in the city are rising at a rate of £5,000 a month, making property the safest of investments for those who are basking in the riches that oil and gas have given Scotland's north-east corner.

In London, prices are already 25% above their 2008 peak, and are now rising at a rate of about 18% a year.

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of national home prices, the broadest measure of the American market, was rising at a rate of nearly 10% a year.

Since the middle of last year, consumer spending has been rising at a rate of about 2.5 percent a year, and car sales picked up in March.

But jobs for people with college degrees are rising at a rate of more than 2percentt a year.

Before the recession, in contrast, British workers' efficiency was rising at a rate of around 1.7% a year.

World demand for soy, used largely as an ingredient in livestock feed, is rising at a rate of more than 6percentt a year, Brown says, but crop yields are fairly constant.

Ocean levels have been rising at a rate of about eight inches a century.

The death toll was rising at a rate never before witnessed.