Sentence examples for small increases of from inspiring English sources

But under a new five-year deal, which has been staunchly opposed by some drug companies, NHS spending on patented medicines will remain flat for two years, followed by small increases of just under two per cent over the following three years – with drug companies paying back any costs above this level.

Even small increases of a few hundred square meters were associated with an increase in bird richness.

Here, the stopping threshold is usually a small negative value allowing also small increases of the error rate in order to simplify the model.

This well-controlled, statistically powerful study in middle-aged men demonstrated that vardenafil and sildenafil produced no increase of absolute QT and only similar, small increases of the QTc interval, with a shallow dose-response curve.

On the other hand, both the Flickr and the hybrid gravity model achieve higher determination coefficients as the training set grows larger and the difference with respect to the gravity model becomes relevant even under small increases of the training set size.

Others would say it's more difficult to pass programs like paid leave -- and more difficult to elect politicians who support such programs -- when the plans entail even small increases of taxes on the middle class.

On March 22 Johnson approved only a small increase of troops.

During 2009, Mr. Jaimes said, there was a small increase of 2 to 3 percent in values.

It found a 1percentt rise in the death rate for each small increase of tiny particles in the air and a 2percentto4percentcent increase in hospitalization of the elderly.

In March, the run of declines ended with a laughably small increase of 0.03%, and the annual growth was still falling by 1.1%.

Between 1971 and 2001 the number of people decreased from 14.7 to 14.3 million, followed by a small increase of 762,000 this century.