Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will probably be passed alto to a small committee of the European Parliament , but the Parliament has already voted by a large majority in favour of a ban and a further reference may be deemed unnecessary . |
| 2 | Investment in training has increased and our respondents believe that the quality of their audits has significantly improved by a better focusing of audit effort and improved recording of audit evidence . |
| 3 | John Wriglesworth , the housing analyst at UBS , a Swiss bank , estimates that the stock of unsold homes has already fallen by a third over the past year . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ Even allowing for inflation , prescription charges have already increased by a staggering 650 per cent since 1979 . ’ |
| 5 | Flour has already risen by 15 per cent since then whilst animal feed has already risen by a similar amount and is expected to increase further . |