Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1932 and the peak of activity in 1937 real income increased by 19 per cent , gross domestic production by 23 per cent , industrial production by nearly 46 per cent and gross fixed investment by 47 per cent . |
| 2 | Private-sector consumption was predicted to grow by 5.7 per cent per year , with investment increasing by 8.8 per cent ; government-sector consumption was predicted to rise by 3.3 per cent , and investment by 8.5 per cent . |
| 3 | This appears to be the case for equation ( 2.2 ) which has the property that a rise of 10 points in JXC ( i.e. 0.1 ) will raise the stock of inward investment by some 2.4% on impact , and by some 8.2% in the long-run . |
| 4 | According to Criminal Statistics for England and Wales 1988 , during these 9 years of Conservative law and order , violent offences increased by 66.5 per cent , robbery by 151.2 per cent , burglary by 50.3 per cent , theft by 37.3 per cent and fraud and forgery by 13.4 per cent . |
| 5 | Nepal devalued its rupee by 20.96 per cent against the US dollar in early July , in line with a devaluation of the Indian rupee [ see p. 38337 ] . |
| 6 | The rest of the thirteen essential attributes range between a mention by 20 per cent for ‘ mature/stable ’ down to a mere 2 per cent for ‘ specific educational qualifications ' ( ! ) |
| 7 | It begins by looking at the Reagan record in such areas as pollution control , natural resource management and energy , at the administration 's attitudes to the international environment ( it wants to cut its contribution to the UN Environment Programme by 70 per cent ) and at the massacre of the Council on Environmental Quality ( two thirds of its budget and four fifths of its staff chopped ) . |
| 8 | But somehow I just managed to miss Leading Aircraftsman by two per cent when I passed out . |
| 9 | It can reduce the amount of water needed to flush a lavatory by 40 per cent — and flushing accounts for over one third of the water consumed in Britain 's homes . |
| 10 | Expenditure on education would increase by 5.7 per cent , on the environment by 13 per cent , on research by 5.7 per cent and on defence by only 1 per cent . |
| 11 | He also talks of boosting Antarctic research by 300 per cent , and continuing the support for the Australia telescope and the starlab space telescope project . |
| 12 | Having reviewed the scheme , an FAC Working Group recommended no change for the year commencing 1 April 1993 , but this recommendation was not accepted by the committee and the CAA has since notified AOC operators that it ‘ has it in mind ’ to raise AOC charges for operators of aircraft of less than fifteen tonnes maximum take-off weight by fifty per cent from April . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if it was quite clear and unambiguous then a written form was preferred Okay , now a study by Daft et al , Daft as in y'know one marble short of a whatever yeah or okay er Daft et al nineteen eighty-seven had a look at managers ' use of er of these two different media and found that in general most managers were media sensitive . |
| 14 | During the decade 1970–80 , serious crimes recorded by the police increased for nearly every category : violence against the person rose by 136 per cent , burglary by 44 per cent , robbery by 138 per cent , theft and handling by 54 per cent and fraud and forgery by 18 per cent . |
| 15 | According to Criminal Statistics for England and Wales 1988 , during these 9 years of Conservative law and order , violent offences increased by 66.5 per cent , robbery by 151.2 per cent , burglary by 50.3 per cent , theft by 37.3 per cent and fraud and forgery by 13.4 per cent . |
| 16 | THE Unilever juggernaut rolled its profits past £2 billion last year despite recession , increasing its turnover by 7 per cent to £24.7 billion and pre-tax profits by 13 per cent to £2,029 million . |
| 17 | The industrial businesses also increased their turnover by 15 per cent from £105 million in 1991-92 to £121 million this year , reinforcing one of AEA 's aims of diversifying its customer base and opportunities have been created both in the UK and overseas as a result of acquisitions and joint ventures . |
| 18 | Howarth has already increased the work turnover by ten per cent . |
| 19 | Since January thefts have fallen by 20 per cent , car crime by 15 per cent and violent offences by 14 per cent . |
| 20 | Mr Livingstone would cut £7 billion from defence spending , reduce interest rates by two per cent and devalue the pound by 15 per cent in the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 21 | In ninety two there were redundancy costs to some extent offset by some er savings in payroll , there 'll by no redundancy cost relating to those previous redundancies in ninety three , but there will be the full saving on the payroll . |
| 22 | To prevent further damage , emissions of sulphur dioxide , the main source of acid rain , will have to the cut by 90 per cent by 2005 , according to the report . |
| 23 | The Opposition have made pledges on free phones and loft insulation — and only today we heard that they proposed to cut the profits of the electricity industry by 37.5 per cent . |
| 24 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 25 | Violence on television was blamed for real life violence by 67 per cent . |
| 26 | Overall , compared with the 1992 general election results , support for the DC dropped by 4.8 per cent , for the Socialists by 3.6 per cent and for the PDS by 1.9 per cent , while the Northern League increased its share of the vote by 3.4 per cent , La Rete by 2.7 per cent and the MSI by 1.7 per cent . |
| 27 | The right-wing New Democracy ( Nea Dimokratia — ND ) won 150 seats in the 300-seat Assembly ( Vouli ) , a net gain of two seats , and increased its share of the vote by 0.7 per cent . |
| 28 | Mr Milne claimed : ‘ The action taken by the Harbour Board is to increase the cost for importers using the harbour by 600 per cent . |
| 29 | Projected spending on defence was cut by over 9 per cent in real terms , on public administration by 3.3 per cent and on foreign affairs by 1.9 per cent , with real spending increases only in the fields of health , pensions and unemployment . |
| 30 | Major budget cuts , including foreign aid by 76 per cent , defence by 10 per cent . |