increasing percentage

collocation in English

meaningsofincreaseandpercentage

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increase
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.kriːs/us
/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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percentage
noun
uk
/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/us
/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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(Definition ofincreaseandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With increasing age above 70 years, however, participation contracted and anincreasingpercentagerestricted their productive life to the private domain.
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In all industrialized countries which have anincreasingpercentageof older people, the need for providing them with some independence will continue to grow.
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Of course, over the years anincreasingpercentageof those who are on the new benefit will come within the tax system.
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That gives a constantlyincreasingpercentageto each county which has less than 100 persons per mile of road.
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Although it is a steadilyincreasingpercentage, the figure speaks for itself.
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The truth of that is surely obvious to a country, anincreasingpercentageof whose exports per year are invisible or services.
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Since then the academic standards have risen and anincreasingpercentageof academically trained dentists has taken the place of that class.
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Thereafter, anincreasingpercentageof young people will have the opportunity of receiving these credits.
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Anincreasingpercentageof those properties are for sale for sums in excess of £100,000.
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I know of no evidence that anincreasingpercentageof thefts from stores is attributable to staff.
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It is important that we should get anincreasingpercentageof colonial technicians and managers as opposed to foreign technicians and managers.
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However, anincreasingpercentageof students are mature students or students who have physical problems which do not allow them to leave home.
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A large andincreasingpercentageof local authority housing is already being used to rehouse the homeless.
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Great nations are spending anincreasingpercentageof their national wealth not so much on exports and imports but on consumer services.
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The pay awards must be contained within the steadilyincreasingpercentageof the national wealth that is devoted to health.
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Anincreasingpercentageof our aid is committed for humanitarian purposes.
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She mentioned theincreasingpercentageof gross takings which has gone in the levy since 1960, and this is simply a continuation of a trend evident before then.
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Does he further understand that, as the total money available to local authorities decreases, anincreasingpercentageof cuts will be made in the provision of statutory services?
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I am sure that he would equally accept in return that, for good or ill, anincreasingpercentageof both revenue and capital comes from national funding.
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