But just 16% pa for a decade means they have risen over 4 times.
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Where they have risen by five percentage points, the jobless rate has gone up by three.
The band's expressive music has earned them their share of critics as they have risen to prominence.
Relative to income, they have risen by 5% since 2000, compared with jumps of more than 25% in some other OECD countries.
They have risen by more than half in the past year.
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Though they have risen faster of late, prices in Britain are still lower than on the continent, where inefficient and mainly monopolistic firms dictate terms to long-suffering customers.
Seat prices slid although they have risen strongly in recent weeks.
In American cities, they have risen four-fold in recent years.
The prospect of such selling, and the fear that prices for rare earth elements might crash as quickly as they have risen, has caused the stock to weaken in 2011.
Interest-rates will probably be over the hill, in the sense they will have risen but will then be heading down, the economy will will still be looking pretty good and the stock market just won't look so expensive then.
As for the machines of the subtitle, to what position, exactly, have they risen?
They note that remittances from migrants in western Europe have risen fast (although they are probably not responsible for more than a small share of the growth in the east).
Treasury-bond yields have not risen yet but that is because they have been suppressed by the effects of quantitative easing (QE) and buying by Asian central banks.
And the pressure on private-equity firms to disclose more about their business has risen as they have taken more money from public pension funds.
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Bond yields have risen, but they are still much lower than a few years ago.
Many affluent Brazilians retire in their 50s, and many pensions have risen steeply because they are tied to the minimum wage.
Federal interest payments have risen sharply, but they are still fairly small because of low interest rates.
Monthly sales fell through most of last year, but they leveled off in the fall and have risen every month since.
And billionaires that did finish their bachelor's degrees are equally likely to have studied liberal arts and then risen through corporate marketing or sales departments as they are to have studied hard science or engineering.
Over the trailing 12 months corporate earnings have risen by 20% and they continue to come in ahead of expectations.
In Britain house prices remain 170% higher than they were in 1997, but average earnings have risen by only 55% in the same period.
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Given this promising outlook, mining bosses feel that their firms' share prices have not risen as high as they should, says Michael Gambardella of JPMorgan.
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The LSE's shares have risen steadily of late, though they fell back slightly on the morning that Macquarie went hostile.
But if prices have risen since their last visit, they may reconsider.
Banks' operating profits have risen sharply in recent years as they have invested in long-term government securities and funded these with deposits for which they have had to pay almost nothing.
Although rates have risen recently, she points out that they are still relatively low.
Though markets have risen from their lows last week, they are still down.
And while home prices, as measured by the Case-Shiller index, have risen for the last eight months, they are still nearly 30% off their mid-2006 peak.
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