11.   He predicts unemployment will continue rising next year, and that eventually wage growth will fall below inflation.

12.   If unemployment continues to fall recruitment and retention problems will increase and will exert an pressure on inflation by the second half of this year, said Hatchett.

13.   If unemployment continues to fall, wages will certainly accelerate.

14.   If the relatively high unemployment continues, New York and other states, including Alabama, Texas and Illinois, might exhaust their reserves and resort to more borrowing.

15.   If unemployment continues to rise and change continues to be resisted, the euro may simply prove a catalyst to disaster.

16.   Job figures are set to come out Friday and predictions are that unemployment will continue its upward trend.

17.   Over this period, unemployment has continued to rise.

18.   Such low unemployment cannot continue indefinitely without leading to higher labor costs and rising inflation.

19.   The big uncertainty hanging over the economic picture is whether consumers with jobs will hunker down and curtail their spending if unemployment continues rising around them.

20.   The report found that despite the low overall jobless rate, persistently high unemployment continues to plague low-wage workers.