The benefits sometimes received by strikers' families also rose in absolute terms.

There are a number of reasons why primary product prices should have begun to rise in real terms around this time.

The overall figure is projected to rise by almost 4% annually in real terms over the next few years.

Since that was written our interest rates have risen in real terms to an all-time peak.

Unit costs for maintained schools have risen in real terms throughout the 1980s - by 42% between 1979-80 and 1988-9.

Resources for education have risen in absolute terms over the past decade, but it is difficult to match the rate of population growth.

Child poverty is rising in absolute terms as a result of the government's cuts.

After 1952, however, wages began rising in real terms once more.

In just two financial years up to the election, public spending rose by 10% in real terms.

The Canadian market rose only 7.41 percent in local terms.