Example sentences of "[verb] by more [subord] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 5 | Sales — mostly of properties in the North-west of England , so far one of the more resilient areas in the slump - fell by more than a third , from 502 homes to 316 . |
| 6 | In real terms , gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983 . |
| 7 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 8 | It was centred on Athens and felt by more than a third of the population . |
| 9 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 10 | Between 1982 — when Mexico threatened default — and the end of 1985 , the dividends declared by the big nine banks increased by more than a third . |
| 11 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 12 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |