As the price escalated, some people said that whoever won would be paying too much.

Much of the high fashion has worn off, and prices have escalated.

The Monet show provides a measure of how prices have escalated.

For six months, the Government has been without a budget, as the deficit and prices have escalated.

That may be helped by the fact that prices are no longer escalating the way they did the last few years.

The price also escalated after it became clear that a new road would have to be built to the airport.

The price of petroleum escalated, while the demand for business travel diminished.

It was a lucky break that she bought in 1996, before prices escalated.

Lots sold for $15,000 in the early 1980s, and slightly over a decade later, the price had escalated to about $200,000.

The sale was a good indicator of how prices have escalated.