Sentence examples for steep raise from inspiring English sources
"steep raise" is an acceptable phrase in written English
You would use it to refer to a large or sudden increase in something. For example, "Many businesses have seen a steep raise in profits over the past year."
Teachers at 10 Catholic high schools in New York City and its suburbs have threatened to go on strike as early as today, charging that the Archdiocese of New York has ignored their demand for a steep raise and delayed negotiations.
In addition, he received a steep raise.
Previously in the 19th up till mid-20th century, the world has seen great industrial expansions which we all know as industrial revolution which has created a steep raise in population and its demand for survival thus creating a great impact in the agricultural, industrial, dairy, and medicinal fields.
He has proposed steep raises for county police officers and detectives, as well as for county correction officers, in a trio of proposed contracts that would raise costs nearly $200 million over seven years.
Mr. Green had long rankled the teachers' union by putting the reduction of class sizes at the top of his education agenda, a strategy that the union saw as a distraction from the goal of steep raises for teachers.
But Democratic and Republican county legislators said today that with Nassau's current fiscal crisis, when Mr. Gulotta is proposing a roughly 4percentt increase in property taxes and the layoffs of more than 350 county employees in his 2001 budget, it is unfair -- and politically impractical -- to grant such steep raises.
In a statement to the Chicago News Cooperative, Mr. Burris acknowledged that he had a "steep climb," but vowed to raise "the necessary funds to retire this debt in full".
In particular, his amazing performance on the steep climb in Verbier, Switzerland, raised eyebrows.
This is spoken on a steep rising Tone 2, the steep rise indicating he has raised the interpersonal involvement in his question, i.e. he REALLY wants to know.
The orchestra is coping with a 20percentt cut in funds from the Westchester Arts Council this year by curtailing its expenses, Ms. Kapp said, citing a steep rent raise in Dobbs Ferry.
The city's 80,000 teachers agreed last year to work an extra 100 minutes a week under their new contract, in exchange for a steep pay raise.
