Example sentences of "[vb pp] by more [subord] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 5 | 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 . |