Example sentences of "rise of [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1959 and 1977 the number of offences per 100,000 of the population for males aged 14 to under 17 increased by 148 per cent , compared to a rise of 136 per cent for males aged 21 and over — hardly a massive difference . |
| 2 | That 's an increase of more than two million pounds on the previous year and a rise of seventeen per cent . |
| 3 | Sales were no problem as the reduction in turnover to £161 million , from £247million in the corresponding half to September 30 translates wih the help of currency gains into a rise of 18 per cent in the businesses retained . |
| 4 | Sales were no problem as the reduction in turnover to £161 million , from £247million in the corresponding half to September 30 translates wih the help of currency gains into a rise of 18 per cent in the businesses retained . |
| 5 | The NACAB has recorded a rise of 120 per cent in the number of debt related inquiries in the last 10 years . |
| 6 | The NACAB has recorded a rise of 120 per cent in the number of debt related inquiries in the last 10 years . |
| 7 | Commercial vehicle production ‘ leapt ahead ’ to 29,058 , a rise of 40.74 per cent . |
| 8 | Just over two hundred thousand vehicles were sold in the first six months of this year , a rise of thirteen per cent on the year before . |
| 9 | The worst increase is in murder cases , which , for the six forces surveyed , have leapt from 72 in 1991 to 122 in 1992 — a rise of 69 per cent . |
| 10 | Lowest is for music , with £7.976 million , a rise of 1.5 per cent . |
| 11 | The West European chemical industry will probably have seen a 1 per cent increase in GDP in 1991 , Freeman added , compared to a forecast rise of 2.1 per cent . |
| 12 | Mr Henry Wendt , 58 , chairman , received £1.8 million in salary , bonus and income from share options , up 93 per cent , while Mr Bob Bauman , 60 , chief executive , picked up £1.7 million , a rise of 3.5 per cent . |
| 13 | The interim dividend is 2.75p , a rise of 10 per cent . |
| 14 | LAND Rover yesterday announced an increase in production of its £21,000 Discovery range by 550 a week — a rise of 10 per cent . |
| 15 | The proposed total dividend for the year of 11.85p , a rise of 10 per cent , is a measure of our financial strength and of the confidence we have in our long-term prospects . |
| 16 | The unemployment rate increased by 31 per cent last year , compared to an overall Scottish rise of 10 per cent . |
| 17 | On March 7 , 1990 , a nationwide dispute among manual workers at the Ford Motor Company ended following the acceptance of an improvement on the company 's offer of a pay rise of 10.2 per cent . |
| 18 | Scottish Opera , the biggest single beneficiary , receives £4,460,000 , a rise of 2.3 per cent . |
| 19 | EUROPE 'S cellular radio market broke the two million subscriber barrier in September , a rise of 26 per cent since the beginning of the year . |
| 20 | TYPISTS rang up an average pay rise of 7.6 per cent last year — almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 21 | The highest rise of 27 per cent will be in Salisbury , where a £4.50 increase will bring rents up to £20.50 a week . |
| 22 | A RISE in production from interests in UK oilfields contributed the bulk of improved earnings by Premier Consolidated Oilfields , which yesterday reported a rise of 27 per cent to £15.1 million in profit after payment of tax for 1992 . |
| 23 | Namely a 30.4 per cent reduction in GNP in one year and a rise of 500 per cent in unemployment and a 73.5 per cent fall in exports , due to the collapse of the eastern former Russian satellite state economies . |
| 24 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 25 | On March 15 the main employers ' and trade-union federations agreed a general wage rise of 4 per cent for around 400,000 private-sector workers . |
| 26 | The conflict was only resolved in late November when Spitaels and Deprez , leaders of the PS and PSC respectively , signed a declaration promising to ensure the financing of the measures decided , which provided for a monthly salary increase of BF2,000 from April 1991 and a further rise of 4 per cent from October 1992 . |
| 27 | For example , a writer who signs an agreement with a 60:40 split may be able to negotiate a rise of 5 per cent in every year of the contract . |
| 28 | Total spending was put at TSh206,000 million , a rise of 45 per cent in local currency terms from the 1989/90 budget estimate of TSh142,000 million ( because of the devaluation of the shilling , the rise was equivalent to only 9 per cent in dollar terms ) . |
| 29 | The Congress , which in July had rejected Collor 's proposed pay increases for the military [ ibid. ] , subsequently approved an interim pay rise of 45 per cent for the 350,000 members of the armed forces . |
| 30 | The total number of incidents increased to 22,469 , a rise of 8 per cent on the previous year . |