Example sentences of "were [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAFA ADS achieved a small increase in profits of £3,257 by RAFAMACS ' profits were down by £33,929 . |
| 2 | Industry estimates are that sales were down by 12 p.c. on the year at about 140,000 . |
| 3 | Almost as many movies were made here , but ‘ shooting days ’ were down by half ; independents on small budgets ca n't afford to waste time . |
| 4 | Operating costs in 1992 were down by some £29 million ( 22% ) compared to 1990 , partly achieved by the continuing redundancy programme which cost the company £1.7 million to implement last year . |
| 5 | Prices were down by around 50% by comparison to two years ago in the hope of moving stock : Willy d'Huysser from Belgium , for example , with a very fine choice of works , offered a Jannis Kounellis sculpture of 1976 for FFr850,000 which he had failed to sell at the Salon de Mars in Paris last year for FFr1.2 million . |
| 6 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 7 | At the pre-tax level , profits were down by 43.1% at £575,000. £Earnings per share fell by 44.1% to 8.5 pence . |
| 8 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio , slipped to 1.13 in April from 1.17 in March , and new orders for semiconductors in the US market were down by 0.6% on the figure for March . |
| 9 | Lately , trouble has appeared on the radar screen : last year 's profits were down by 15% from 1991 , despite a sharp rise in tourism to Israel . |
| 10 | Christie 's declared a 6% increase in sales totalling $602 million ( £336 million ) for the last six months although sales totals for the whole 1991–92 season were down by 8% . |
| 11 | Births to women with 4 or 5 previous children fell by a precipitous 77 per cent and even third and further births were down by almost half ( 49 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Yes , they were down by six thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds . |
| 13 | Figures from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry show that applications for places on teacher training courses for physics are , in 1989 , down by 25 per cent on 1988 , while the 1988 figures were down by 17 per cent on 1987 ( Times Educational Supplement 4 April 1989 ) . |
| 14 | According to industry estimates , sales of nablabs last year were down by 25 per cent overall on the previous 12 months . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , nablab sales in the off-trade , which is traditionally less affected by recessionary pressure , were down by a third . |
| 16 | Besides , they were down by the river now , and she wanted to see the bridge … |
| 17 | At the full year , losses were down by 40% from $113.9m to $68.5m , despite some additional reserve strengthening on the account . |
| 18 | Losses in the Liability account for the year were down by almost a third at $15.5m ( 1991 : $22.6m loss ) . |
| 19 | However , international sanctions meant that foreign loan agreements were down by 51 per cent to $4,800 million . |
| 20 | The Gulf crisis caused revenues from tourism to fall by 65 per cent ( official estimate ) by December and dues from the Suez canal were down by 25 per cent compared with 1989 . |
| 21 | Supplies from Russia via Georgia were down by one-third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption as a result of fighting in the area . |
| 22 | Lengths of rivers classified as " grossly polluted " were down by 56 per cent . |
| 23 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 24 | The corresponding carbon dioxide emissions were down by a similar amount . |
| 25 | That doll — that knitted gobshite — when that thing spat at you , you were n't anywhere near the window , you were over by the statues , on the other the of the room . |
| 26 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 27 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 28 | Okay erm Jim and Si were over by the trees having a fag and walked |
| 29 | Both missed and the underdogs were through by one hole . |
| 30 | Exports from developing countries as a whole were up by 13% in 1990 . |