Example sentences of "[noun sg] by more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've reduced the Task Force by more than half . ’ |
| 2 | FORMER Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson , blamed by many for causing the housing slump , has been forced to slash the price of his luxury home by more than a quarter . |
| 3 | While the chancellor avoided a specific commitment to cut the current £50 billion public spending borrowing requirement by more than the £10 billion in the budget , he has clearly indicated that further progress will be made . |
| 4 | The flare ( terminal portion of the sideburn ) shall not exceed the width of the main portion of the sideburn by more than one-fourth on the unflared width . |
| 5 | The nitric acid 1 plant , which emitted a plume of nitrogen oxides [ NOx ] , has closed down reducing the NOx produced on site by more than half . |
| 6 | However , the workers were split on whether to take industrial action over the crisis , with production employees at Leyland in Lancashire rejecting a strike by 4-1 but shopfloor workers in Glasgow backing the move by more than 2-1 . |
| 7 | It is advisable , however , not to alter the tuning of any one drum by more than a tone ( since small alterations of tuning can be effected by ‘ feel ’ to a great extent ) , and a dozen or more bars of moderate time ought to be allowed for accurate adjustment of the tuning-screws . |
| 8 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 9 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 10 | Thank the Goddess Zambia had had the sense to get out before some scuzzie had violated hir by more than just a beating . |
| 11 | RENTOKIL was quick off the mark yesterday when it decided to increase its dividend by more than earnings to compensate for the Chancellor 's decision to cut the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 12 | In general , do not exceed the total time of the still air pattern by more than 1 minute . |
| 13 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |
| 14 | Projects UK , 1 Black Swan Court , Westgate Road , Newcastle ( Until March 7 ) AS the second of the four overseas photographers , who came to Tyneside last summer , thereby pre-empting the international flavour of the Cleveland 's River Tees project by more than a year , Natassa Markidou , who has a studio and dark-room in Athens , decided that she wanted to commemorate her stay in the North-East by going back to basics . |
| 15 | Overall Thomas Wilcox increased Crocker 's loan book by more than half , from $19bn to $29bn . |
| 16 | We will take 740,000 taxpayers out of taxation altogether by increasing the personal allowance and wife 's earned income allowance by more than inflation . |
| 17 | As we announced in the Budget , no one 's Uniform Business rate will go up this year by more than the rate of inflation — 4.1 per cent . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State may not increase the NNDR from year to year by more than the increase in the Retail Price Index . |
| 19 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 20 | Yet Mr Smith is not only proposing to raise tax in one go by more than anyone has ever dared to before but also concentrating the effect on a relatively small group . |
| 21 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 22 | But the biggest loss will come if the giant Russian republic carries out its decision , taken last week , to cut its contribution to the central budget by more than four-fifths . |
| 23 | A decision to cut a town 's tourist budget by more than half has angered shopkeepers and hoteliers . |
| 24 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 25 | Having cut the natural party of government 's majority by more than three-quarters , we are disappointed only because our expectations were too great . |
| 26 | These measures , along with effective draughtproofing , can cut the energy requirements of a house by more than half — so it should be done before you install a new boiler , which can then be of a smaller design . |
| 27 | Investment in design and manufacturing technology was £11m in 1991 and new machining centres have increased productivity by more than half in some areas of the Glasgow operation . |
| 28 | Do you think your collection will increase in value by more than the rate of inflation in the foreseeable future ? |
| 29 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |