Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] by 40 " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the generators ' costs is the cost of British coal , will the Secretary of State explain why the cost of electricity for more than 21 million households has risen by 40 per cent . |
| 2 | In the first two months since its advent , that process has reduced by 40 per cent . |
| 3 | Moreover , their pay has increased by 40 per cent. , whereas it went down by 25 per cent . |
| 4 | It has increased by 40 per cent . |
| 5 | I hope that the Secretary of State will look again at the figures , instead of looking at them superficially as he has done , to see that , in the past five years , the incidence of passenger train collisions has increased by 40 per cent . |
| 6 | A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has revealed that the rate of destruction of the world 's tropical forests has increased by 40 per cent during the period 1980-90 . |
| 7 | Surveying rural poverty in 114 nations with sizeable rural landholding populations , the report shows that the number of people living below the poverty line has increased by 40 per cent in the past 20 years . |