Example sentences of "by [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of these fertilisers has increased by eight times since the 1950s , and allows farmers to grow one crop continuously without letting the ground recuperate . |
| 2 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 3 | Lord Donaldson asked if he was seriously suggesting that juries would multiply the award by 10 times . |
| 4 | The XPC system used with new Unisys Open 2200 XP enterprise servers is claimed to offer system throughput improvements of up to 30% and to speed the recovery of critical corporate information by 10 times — at significant reductions in overall operating costs . |
| 5 | The high transverse velocities inferred for the three pulsars may be avoided by assuming that the pulsar and SNR are much older ( by 10 times ) than the characteristic spin-down time , so that the remnant is in the older radiative phase for which Shull et al. |
| 6 | Cases are taking 16 months or more , with a backlog of 60,000 , and this must be rectified , especially as , we have been told , the number of applications has increased by 10 times in four years — from 5,000 in 1988 to 50,000 this year . |
| 7 | The annual report of the Forestry Commission — the state forestry body — notes that planting of broadleaved varieties of trees has increased by 10 times over the last decade . |
| 8 | More than 27,000 pulses later the current has increased by 400 times and the pulse length by 600 times . |
| 9 | In the past year , prices have risen by three times the rate of inflation , says National Utility Services , which advises industry on costs . |
| 10 | Whilst exports to the dollar area rose by three times in current terms between 1947 and 1951 , as a share of total exports the increase ( from 11.5 to 14.5 per cent ) was only marginal . |
| 11 | The storage area for raw materials , packaging and finished products is also being increased , by three times its present size , greatly reducing our reliance on external warehousing . |
| 12 | Depression in the previous twelve months was experienced by three times more women who had experienced maternal loss or separation ( of at least one year ) in childhood than by women with no such childhood experiences . |
| 13 | For eastern Europe , 1922 was a traumatic year — money prices were multiplying rapidly ; in Austria by 14,000 times ; in Hungary by 23,000 times ; in Poland by 2 million times ; in Russia by 400 million times and in Germany , by one thousand million times . |
| 14 | The level of repossessions has increased 25-times to more than 75,000 with the level of mortgages between six and 12 months in arrears rising by 18 times to 183,000 . |
| 15 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | The cash deposit of £2,000 has led to an increase in loans and investments of £18,000 , so that total deposits have risen by £20,000 — that is , by ten times the amount of the cash deposit . |
| 17 | Thus between 1966 and 1976 net overseas earnings rose on average by 5.3 times as against 2.3 times for manufacturing . |
| 18 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Compute performance is increasing by 1.7 times every year , while bus bandwidth is going up only by 1.3 times . |
| 20 | But up there , we take up to 8 G-forces , which increase your body weight by 8 times . |
| 21 | Since World War II , births outside marriage have increased by five times as a percentage of all births in the United Kingdom , from 5% ( 1951 ) to 25% ( 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Last year 's winners Imperial were put out after extra time and penalties by five times previous holders White China . |
| 23 | First , we have increased by five times the staff who determine asylum claims to over 500 during this financial year ; 330 are already in post . |
| 24 | If current predictions prove correct , for example , Algeria 's population will have increased by five times between 1950 and 2025 . |
| 25 | In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled . |
| 26 | In 1979 , they pointed out that what we have called suburbanization by addition had increased this by nine times since 1901 , whereas population had increased by only 25% . |
| 27 | Sun exposure of more than 50,000 lifetime hours also increased the risk of being excessively wrinkled by 3.1 times . |
| 28 | Prices rose by one-and-a-half times during the course of the war , which represented a significant achievement by the authorities . |
| 29 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) in California has spent ten years running a US government-sponsored project , which has succeeded in reducing the price of solar cells by 15 times , increasing cell efficiency from 6 per cent to 15 per cent and extending their lifespan from ten to thirty years . |
| 30 | For eastern Europe , 1922 was a traumatic year — money prices were multiplying rapidly ; in Austria by 14,000 times ; in Hungary by 23,000 times ; in Poland by 2 million times ; in Russia by 400 million times and in Germany , by one thousand million times . |