Sentence examples for rising only slightly from inspiring English sources

Using a commercial insurance broker, without any special treatment, I reduced that to £487 for our first year, rising only slightly – to £504 – for the current year.

Other items on the menu prove less seductive, some of them rising only slightly above adequate and a few of them -- an overtart ceviche, a soggy soft-shell crab and an inexplicably tasteless duck breast -- falling well below that bar.

While recorded reports of rape are soaring - up 40% in four years to 13,721 in 2004-05 - the number of rapists convicted each year has been rising only slightly, from 640 in 2002 to 728 in 2005.

Companies such as Dow Chemical, a speciality chemicals firm, and Vallourec, a French steel-tubes firm, have announced new investments in America to take advantage of low gas prices and to supply extraction equipment.…and the pullyuNot only have American wages declined or are rising only slightly, BCG points out, but the dollar has been weakening.

A lot of people, however, cycle in and out of poverty, rising only slightly above the official poverty line, then falling back.

However, the most recent data show that asking prices in urban neighborhoods are rising only slightly faster than in the suburbs, and the suburbs actually have higher population growth.

But imports have risen only slightly.

Toyota's market share rose only slightly.

Rental costs rose only slightly, to 4.1percentt.

American demand will rise only slightly, if at all.

In 2006, Sotheby's accounts receivables rose only slightly.