Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] by more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past twenty years , the number who look at papers has fallen by more than a quarter . |
| 2 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 3 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 4 | The Tokyo stock market had dropped by more than a fifth in 1990 , with the Nikkei average falling on April 3 by 1,978.38 points to 28,002.07 , a drop of 6.6 per cent , the second largest one-day fall in the exchange 's history and the steepest decline since the crash of October 1987 . |
| 5 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |