In 1977, that sum had risen by half.
In 2008, as the credit crunch began, parents poured a total of £4bn into helping their offspring to buy, in the form of gifts, loans and sharing the mortgage, but in 2011 that sum had risen to £5.3bn.
The VFF received monthly payments of 28,000 DM in the mid-1950s; four years later that sum had risen to 55,000 DM.10 This gave the Volksbund an exceptionally solid financial basis for the time, enabling it to concentrate on the political business of anticommunist counter-intelligence in the Federal Republic during the height of the Cold War.
The average yield of a basket of renminbi-denominated bonds issued in the Hong Kong market, so-called dim sum bonds, tracked by HSBC has risen to 3.8 percent from 2.4 percent in the last month.
Doubling your expected journey time proves to be good rule of thumb, though one I have learnt only after being late for most of my meetings.My hotel bill has not (quite) doubled, but it has risen to a sum that would not seem out of place for a similar room in London or New York.
In sum, there is little reason to think that America's feasible long-term growth rate has risen appreciably.Nor has fast growth ceased to put pressure on product and labour markets.
In my lifetime, the world's population has risen from 2.2 billion to 6.8 billion, which means, if my sums are right, that my generation outnumbers the sum total of all those who have ever lived before.
He has been criticised over inequality, which under many measures has risen under Labour: that he cares about reducing poverty, yes, but cares little about the vast sums the richest are paid.
Japan has risen, fallen and risen again.
