Example sentences of "by [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United , inspired by fit-again Eric Cantona are now unbeaten in 15 matches , and Southampton never looked like preventing them chalking up their eighth win in nine attempts against them . |
| 2 | ( In fact , the Durable Household Goods Index rose by only 5% in 1980 compared with a 15% rise in the Retail Price Index . ) |
| 3 | The trends in long absences across the grades , however , were reduced by only 5% for men and 15% for women . |
| 4 | For example , when the market index rises by 10% , kryptonite futures prices may increase by 20% ( a ratio of 2 ) , while the price of phlogiston futures may increase by only 5% ( a ratio of a half ) . |
| 5 | So the strike , which has reduced total coal output by less than a third , will reduce all energy supplies by only 6% . |
| 6 | Whereas urban SO&sub2 ; concentrations fell fivefold from 1968 to 1988 , rural concentrations fell by only half . |
| 7 | The next most common change , an improvement in staff communication , is claimed by only half of the teachers . |
| 8 | The above analysis assumes the basis is affected by only S , D and r . |
| 9 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 10 | Asia Equity , a securities firm , expects earnings to increase by only 1% in 1993 , though it is looking for 16% growth in 1994 after the lights come back on . |
| 11 | Even for trajectories as low as varying C L over the range 10 -3 –1 changes the altitude at which a Tunguska-sized stony asteroid airbursts by only 1% . |
| 12 | From the beginning to the end of the 1980s , take-home pay rose by 41.4% for those on 1½ times the national average , by 37% for those on the national average and by only 32% for those on half the average . |
| 13 | Last year T&C scraped into the black by only £25,000 , compared to a pre-tax profit of £4m in 1990 . |
| 14 | ( Tobacco industry employment declined between 1980 and 1988 by 57% , mainly through automation , in a period when tobacco consumption declined by only 20% . ) |
| 15 | In the survey , one of the two higher forms of participation was recorded by only 20% of those surveyed . |
| 16 | The monthly contribution of this department ( £5,000 ) , subject to a special machine being introduced into the department at a hire cost of £4,000 per year , would fall by only 20% of its current level as a result of the reduction in the labour force . |
| 17 | To take one example , if Britain stopped burning fossil fuels altogether , the world 's output of carbon dioxide — some 6 billion tonnes a year — would fall by only 160m tonnes . |
| 18 | Overall , it shifts upwards by only £1.2 million , as shown in Fig. 8 . |
| 19 | The defenders ' and challengers ' Cup trials , for example , have been covered by only ESPN , the sport cable channel , in the United States . |
| 20 | Notice that an increase in government spending of £2 million would increase national income by £5 million ( via the ordinary multiplier ) , whereas an increase in lump-sum taxation of £2 million ( to finance the government spending , say ) would reduce national income by only £3 million . |
| 21 | Sheep numbers doubled during this period in Wales ; Scottish sheep numbers rose by only 12% . |
| 22 | This was done by only sampling at fixed distances between points . |
| 23 | A $4000 annual tax on a rich family raises poor families ' income by only $1000 each because of their large numbers , but how much beyond that $1000 would you accept as a tolerable loss ? |
| 24 | Assume , for the moment , no increase in the relative price of medical care : the ratio of public spending ( excluding debt-interest payments ) to GDP will rise by only 8% in Britain , from 33% to 36% . |
| 25 | On average , Labour 's vote rose by only 3% more in Tory wards where Labour started off second to the Conservatives than in seats where it was third . |
| 26 | But now that the population is no longer growing , increases in GNP will have to rely almost entirely on rising productivity — and during the 1970s and 1980s productivity grew , on average , by only 3% a year . |
| 27 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 28 | Britain and Europe rated just 25pc and defence was rated as a serious issue by only 23pc . |
| 29 | David the chief economist of Nat West Bank expects output to rise by only point six percent this year . |
| 30 | As originally disclosed by the Guardian , the estimated value of the tax concessions alone offered at one point during the negotiations was close to £35 million , while the European Commission was led to believe that BAe would benefit by only £25 million from the easing of tax restrictions . |