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By 1980 the figure had edged up to 69 percent.

When things quiet down a bit, we can edge up around there.

Since then, they have edged up by an average of 2 percent a year.

But in the last 16 years, they have edged up just 9 percent.

He said the inflation rate might edge up from 3 percent, but not by much.

The figure has edged up from 8.8 million in June.

And exports are expected to edge up by 1 percent.

The figure fell to a low of 2,296 in 2001 and has edged up since then.

The unemployment rate, however, may edge up to 5 or 5.25 percent.

He edged up to the frame side of the building.

She found the brown throw and pulled an edge up onto the table.

There were three books in the box, packed edge up.

Then it edged up to his glass eye once more.

The rate in the West edged up, however, to 7.5 percent.

The guards had edged up all together; but I was alone.

Suppose her hands then edged up to the small of his back.

For the first time in two months, the unemployment rate edged up.

Then it began to edge up, reaching 66.8 in January.

He had planned edging up to the very same questions.

The unemployment rate may edge up from its historic low of 4 percent.

Since then, the company said, its market share has been edging up, and is now 17.5 percent.

But in general the drinks do have an edge up on plain water.

She was holding my knife over the back of the seat, open, edge up.

But now, those contribution rates have begun to edge up.

As the days edge up to June 30, the air is thick with tension.