Example sentences of "increase in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mast fruiting , there are increases in dispersers in anticipation pigs ( flowers ) or jays ( green cones ) but pigs also take fungi , e.g. truffles , which exude sex pheromones . |
| 2 | ‘ The increases in landings which the fishermen complain about are , in fact , caught by UK fishermen themselves . ’ |
| 3 | We have a system of local government finance which has concentrated its attention on the poll tax payer , bringing in gearing which has resulted in enormous increases in bills , without any material increase in spending or improvements in services . |
| 4 | MICHAEL PORTILLO , the Treasury Chief Secretary , stoked the row over the Budget imposition of value-added tax on domestic fuel yesterday by refusing to give a commitment that almost six million pensioners and others on income support would receive full compensation for increases in bills . |
| 5 | Will he continue to encourage further investment , which will lead automatically to further increases in exports ? |
| 6 | It was apparent from elsewhere in the responses that four Polytechnics and five Colleges had had cuts in the area of Language in Education , and that one College and one Polytechnic had had increases in provisions within the previous five years . |
| 7 | On Nov. 9 , two United Kingdom clearing banks , Lloyds and National Westminster also announced increases in provisions against bad Third-World debts . |
| 8 | Anxious children showed a slightly different pattern : there were often marked increases in fears and worries during the first year of life of the sibling . |
| 9 | Thus the government announced sweeping increases in taxes and cuts in the public sector ; it aimed to scrap all the remaining state subsidies , sell off state assets , and fire about 80,000 workers ( a small proportion of public employees ) . |
| 10 | They also criticised the government for its planned increases in taxes and for failing to curb public spending . |
| 11 | This was to come from a temporary one-year 7.5 per cent income and corporation tax surcharge from July 1 , 1991 , a 25 pfennig tax increase per litre of ordinary grade petrol ( plus similar increases in taxes on diesel , heating oil and gas ) and tax increases on tobacco and insurance premiums . |
| 12 | Manos 's first action in his new capacity was to announce steep increases in taxes on bank deposits from September , an immediate increase in fuel prices , and changes to the scales of value added tax to bring Greek rates more in line with European Community ( EC ) policy . |
| 13 | The commission recommended an immediate 80 per cent cut in industrial energy taxes , with the revenue shortfall made up by across-the-board increases in taxes on heating oil and electricity use . |
| 14 | On the contrary , it commended the authors for resisting the temptation to turn the increases in offences against property and the person into highly inflammable political material with corresponding demands for ‘ hard ’ as opposed to ‘ soft ’ dealings with offenders . |
| 15 | Unfounded optimism over anticipated revenue from oil exports had led to major increases in imports in 1989 [ see p. 37016 for unsuccessful commencement of oil exports in 1988 ] . |
| 16 | If workers believe inflation is likely to accelerate , they will demand high enough wages to compensate for expected increases in prices . |
| 17 | Differential increases in prices might cause problems for planning by causing imbalances . |
| 18 | Statistical aggregates suggesting an inexorable logic to Labour 's advance in the 1920s disguise considerable reversals in certain localities and unexpected increases in others ( Savage 1987 Ch 8 ) . |
| 19 | Over the page Chair , within er , those totals there are a number of proposals for reductions in c certain areas of spending and increases in others , which are in excess of the amount which has been delegated to , er , to the Director to agree , and which needs this Committee 's approval erm , and would then go on to er , Resources Management for , for their agreement . |
| 20 | The difference between the image created by our brain and that which other animals see increases in invertebrates . |
| 21 | The authorities sometimes turned down applications for butcher 's licences because they feared that the presence of such establishments would lead to increases in cattle stealing . |
| 22 | Palatable seaweeds in North Carolina have improved fitness if growing with unpalatable competitors less susceptible to herbivory , i.e. one competitor seeming helpful to another , the abundance of the less palatable leading to increases in abundances and numbers of other species . |
| 23 | Since then the district rate had risen steadily ; so too had rents , responsibility for which was laid firmly at the door of landlords and hence the Alliance : –Tote Labour and keep out Alliance landlords ' , concluded E Reed after a brief analysis of increases in rents ( Election leaflet 1920 ) . |
| 24 | Increases in earnings just above the old NIC ‘ steps ’ ( £75 and £115 ) will no longer be wiped out by higher contributions . |
| 25 | If , as is likely , NHS employees then seek and obtain wage increases in line with other increases in earnings , then a greater amount of resources will be needed to fund them . |
| 26 | But there was worse to come as retail prices continued to rise and real wages to fall and as some shipowners , taking advantage of the union 's declaration of industrial truce , resisted increases in earnings and " fought the union tooth and nail for every penny " . |
| 27 | The statistics on use of the library over a period can prove useful in presenting reports to the school hierarchy and arguing for increases in resources . |
| 28 | Despite the greater emphasis on additional facilities , it has been necessary for the ordinary financing arrangements to be enlarged by regular increases in quotas . |
| 29 | The report noted that sharp increases in arrears on interest payments to commercial banks , from about $10,000 million at the end of 1988 to about $16,400 million a year later , meant that " the prospects for any increases in sources of external financing for the developing countries are not promising " . |
| 30 | At the same time , short-term increases in emissions due to increased space heating demands or increased traffic may also play a part in escalating pollution levels during stagnant atmospheric periods ( anticyclonic or high-pressure weather conditions ) . |