Example sentences of "1979 and [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 2 | Between 1979 and 1987 the median gross weekly earnings of the lowest decile of male manual workers increased by 92 per cent in cash terms , as compared with the highest paid non-manual decile whose incomes increased by 150 per cent . |
| 3 | Between 1979 and 1987 the proportion of unemployed men who received supplementary benefit alone increased from 43 per cent to 61.4 per cent . |
| 4 | Although the Commission was dissolved in 1979 , the 1985 volume of Inland Revenue Annual Statistics found that between 1979 and 1983 the most wealthy 50 per cent of the adult population increased its share of total marketable wealth from 79 — 83 per cent to 80 — 4 per cent . |
| 5 | Between 1979 and 1986 the clear-up rate fell from 41 per cent to 32 per cent . |
| 6 | Between 1979 and 1986 the UK 's portfolio investments overseas rose as the annual outflow increased . |
| 7 | Between 1979 and 1986 the number of private residential homes in Great Britain increased by an average of 18.1 per cent a year . |
| 8 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
| 9 | The stockbrokers Phillips and Drew estimated that between 1979 and 1989 the proportion of shares in private hands fell from 33% to 18% . |
| 10 | The House may wish to know that between 1979 and 1990 the perinatal mortality rate for England and Wales dropped by 45 per cent . |
| 11 | Between 1979 and 1999 the number increased from 55,300 to 97,900 , a rise of over 70 per cent . |
| 12 | Between 1979 and 1985 the proportion of wealth , held by the most wealthy 1 per cent fell by only 2 per cent . |
| 13 | Between 1979 and 1988 the basic rate of this tax was reduced from 33% to 25% , while the highest rate fell from 80% to 40% . |
| 14 | Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) . |