1. Plant cost inflation is predicted to drop marginally from 6 p.c. last year to an average above 5 p.c. up to 1994.

2. However, cost inflation has been for the last three years at a record high level.

3. Similar cost inflation has plagued the network as a whole.

4. Underwear cost inflation doesn't sufficiently explainthe higher prices because cotton prices are actually lower.

5. It blamed the "unprecedented" input cost inflation in commodities such as sugar and wheat last year.

6. When the housing boom came to an end, building cost inflation came down and growth in rents was subdued for a few years. These outcomes helped hold down overall inflation rates during this period.

7. Farmers can not fertilize scientifically and efficiently, which not only causes cost inflation, but also contaminates the atmosphere, water and soil.

8. Rising wages in the workshop of the world might seem to pose unsettling implications for the global economy in the form of thinning profits for companies and cost inflation for consumers.