Example sentences of "[conj] by a far " in BNC.
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1 | Spurred on by the collapse of home demand , UK companies increased exports by 5% in 1991 and by a further 3% in the first half of last year . |
2 | Between 1961 and 1971 , the number of households in England and Wales increased by 2 million , and by a further 1.1 million in the decade up to 1981 . |
3 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
4 | It then fell to 37,440 by the beginning of the following year , but in the first six months of 1989 it rose by 20 per cent to 45,1()0 and by a further 29 per cent to over 58,000 in the second half of the year . |
5 | Industrial output fell dramatically by 23 per cent in 1990 , and by a further 19 per cent in the first four months of 1991 . |
6 | Maternal weight increases , not simply by the weight of child and amniotic fluid and extra weight of the breasts but by a further amount of around 4 kilogrammes . |
7 | In conclusion , Owens ( 1984 ) has commented that the 1980s have been characterized so far not by significant conceptual developments , but by a further widening of the empirical base . |
8 | ‘ The position , therefore , was that the wife , by process of law , namely marriage , had given consent to the husband to exercise the marital right during such time as the ordinary relations created by the marriage contract subsisted between them , but by a further process of law , namely , the justices ’ order , her consent to marital intercourse was revoked . |
9 | The Fairies Hill Lock Cut and a colliery basin emerge together on the right midway between the railway viaduct and another around the following bend , to be followed soon after by a further bridge for a dismantled railway , such was the proliferation of lines in this area . |