Sentence examples for were high to from inspiring English sources

"The number of scared and anxious workers has gone up, but they were high to begin with before this recession," he said.

It was processing increasingly expensive oil from Africa and the Middle East, and the costs were high to ship it by tanker, unload it in a nearby port and then transport it here by a 55-mile-long pipeline.

Mr. Van Hollen, the House sponsor of the plan, said in an interview Monday that the stakes were high to get the bill passed before the midterm campaigns heat up.

The cooling capacity and energy efficiency ratio (EER) increased with increasing temperature difference between the indoor and the outdoor; these values were high to 7440 W and 23, respectively, at temperature difference 20 °C.

Though activists are in the middle of a lawsuit they filed against ethics and integrity minister Simon Lokodo, who has been on a zealous effort to shut down all gay-advocacy workshops and non-profits allied with L.G.B.T. activists, spirits were high to the point that a Pride event was not just wanted, but needed.

Measured Fe concentrations were high to those reported by Fernandez-Turiel et al. (2003) and Zhou et al. (2007).

17 Further, there appears to be a linear relationship between time spent providing care and reported burden, with investigators also noting that caregivers who cared for those patients who were high-to-moderately dependent reported greater impairment in the health, professional, and family/socially domains.

Prices are high to keep profits high.

It was high to the glove side.

Our standards hadn't been high to begin with.

Thus Suzanne writes: "My respect for all mothers has never been higher, and it was high to begin with.