1 This forced the cost of living up considerably.

2 The cost of living is soaring.

3 The cost of living has risen sharply.

4 The cost of living is going up.

5 Housewives often holler about high cost of living.

6 The cost of living is escalating in the country.

7 The cost of living has hiked up again.

8 The cost of living is escalating.

9 The cost of living continues to rise.

10 The cost of living in the city is more expensive, but salaries are supposed to be correspondingly higher.

11 The cost of living is becoming unbearable for retired people in our part of the world .

12 After going up for six months, the cost of living leveled off in September.

13 The high cost of living in London is eating into my savings.

14 The government has released new statistics on the cost of living.

15 The cost of living seems set to drop for the third month in succession.

16 The fall in the cost of living is directly relevant to the drop in the prices of many industrial products and agricultural produce.

17 The cost of living has risen sharply in the last year.

18 The increase in interest rates will raise the cost of living.

19 The cost of living had been racing up in the past year.

20 Average wages have increased in line with the cost of living.

21 She is always carrying on about the rising cost of living.

22 Lower-paid workers often cannot afford the high cost of living in the capital.

23 Inflation is pushing up the cost of living beyond our reach.

24 You can't get away from the fact that the cost of living is always rising.

25 Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.

26 In absolute terms, wages have risen, but not in comparison with the cost of living.

27 The rise in taxation will put pounds on the cost of living.

28 Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living.

29 Pensions are linked to inflation, whereas they should be linked to the cost of living.

30 According to the hypothesis of some economists, increased wages may give rist to the high cost of living.

1 This forced the cost of living up considerably.

2 The cost of living is soaring.

3 You can't get away from the fact that the cost of living is always rising.

4 The rise in taxation will put pounds on the cost of living.

31 the cost of living.

32 Old people are hardest hit by the rising cost of living.

33 The cost of living continued to rise in wartime.

34 It had to, for the cost of living soared.

35 A cost of living index based more widely than on wheat, gives the estimates in Table 7.4.

36 Machungo told the meeting that, despite the high cost of living, there was no alternative to the economic recovery programme.

37 Old age pensions were increased and cuts imposed in 1989 on public-sector salaries were restored together with some cost of living allowance arrears.

38 A pro-growth atmosphere, relatively low cost of living and sunny climate draw businesses in droves.

39 I stayed on the club's committee, even though the burden of the general cost of living made me change address.

40 They are suddenly faced with finding a place to rent and budgeting the cost of living.

41 The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.

42 They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.

43 Workers refuse to hire on for less, because cost of living is higher on the border than farther south.

44 In Britain, for example, there is no excuse for not knowing recent trends in the cost of living.

45 Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills.

46 The low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure.

47 The cost of living makes it difficult for young people to survive in San Francisco, according to Ted.

48 Since so much has to be imported, the local cost of living is high.

49 Union teachers might not get a cost of living increase, but they could negotiate with the local ice cream factory.

50 She's moving to Oregon to escape the high cost of living in Silicon Valley.

51 Many old people have to live in poverty because of the steady rise in the cost of living.

52 Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages.

53 It would delay cost of living adjustments three months over each of the next five years for federal civilian retirees.

54 It is facile to employ cost of living indices or indices of neo-natal mortality without knowing how the figures are calculated.

55 The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure.

56 According to the government, it's a figure which isn't expected to bear any relation to the minimum cost of living.

57 Although the cost of living was very much less than it is now, schoolteachers' salaries were modest.

58 Often Tucson has been compared to Austin, Texas for its size, cost of living, and growth potential.

59 This seems to reflect primarily the increasing cost of school fees, combined with rises in the cost of living.

60 And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living.

61 The cost of living is high.

62 The cost of living has increased dramatically.

63 I halve the cost of living.

64 The cost of living is dreadfully high.

65 Sure, their wages were low but so is the cost of living.

66 As the wages advanced, so did the cost of living.

67 According to the Mercer cost of living survey, Frankfurt is Germany's second most expensive city, and the 48th most expensive in the world.

67 try its best to collect and make good sentences.

68 Wage increase was balanced off by rising cost of living.

69 Bowing under the high cost of living, Israeli taxpayers have accused the ultra-Orthodox of sponging off the state.

70 The government said they would try to ensure that old age pension kept up with the ever- increasing cost of living.

71 The high cost of living means nothing to some people.

72 Tough economic conditions and the spiraling cost of living have helped diminish appeal of male children.

73 Here the prices of houses and general cost of living is cheaper than living closer to the city.

74 Raise Adjustment of pay rate, usually based on performance, cost of living(), or promotion.

75 A rise in the cost of living reflects the rate of inflation.

76 Today's figures from the Office for National Statistics also showed that the Retail Price Index, a measure of inflation generally seen as the best gauge of the cost of living, was at 4.8pc last month.

77 We will improve the urban basic cost of living allowance system, the urban and rural subsidized medical care system, and the assistance system for urban vagrants and beggars.

78 The cost of living index has topped off, this year much higher than last year.

79 In absolute terms wages have risen, but not in comparison with cost of living.

80 Even as the caseload has grown, federal judges' salaries have risen by only 39% since 1991 while the cost of living has gone up 50%.

81 Adjustment of pay rate, usually based on performance, cost of living, or promotion.

82 The rise in the price of oil has knocked the cost of living sideway.

83 Last year, employers counted for 40 percent, while unadjusted pay, cost of living, and unemployment were weighted at 20 percent each.

84 Coolness was gauged by a poll of adults across the country, while rent, the price of movie tickets and a six-pack of beer were used to determine cost of living.

85 Wages is out of step with the cost of living.

86 The cost of living in the Russian capital is nearly 35 percent higher than in New York, which served as the base city for the survey released Monday.

87 Our holiday plans went phut when the cost of living rose again.

88 Adjustment of pay rate, usually based on performance, Polo Ralph Lauren Jerseys, cost of living, or promotion.

89 Several main issues were highlighted during the campaign including the rising cost of living, housing and the expensive rearmament programme which has been ongoing since the war.

90 Ranking as the least expensive city for the fifth year in a row was Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, where the cost of living is half that of New York, Mercer estimated.

91 The cost of living for expatriate s(2) in the Russian capital is nearly 35 percent higher than in New York, which served as the base city for the survey.

92 The survey calculated the cost of living in U.S. dollars, and the Singapore dollar has surged 10% against the U.S. dollar over the past year.

93 The cost of living index compares cost of living among Zips with "100" being average, 200 being twice the average, and 50 being half the average and so on.

94 The cost of living / the cost of living is a phrase commonly used to describe the general cost of living somewhere, e.g. the price of houses, food, transport and so on, e.g.

95 Only Zips where the cost of living index was between 100 and 200 were considered.

96 Wen also announced an ambitious plan to set up "a nationwide basic minimum cost of living allowance system" for the rural residents, who traditionally had no access to social security coverage.

97 Setting up a basic cost of living allowance system for all urban and rural residents has great and far-reaching significance for promoting social fairness and building a harmonious society.

98 Fresh fruit and vegetables can't become luxury items because of the increasing cost of living.