Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questioned about high damages awards following motor accidents , Ivor Carr , Secretary of the British Motorists Association , said there were moves afoot to increase car insurance premiums by 1,000 per cent and this would encourage motorists to indulge in defensive driving to keep premiums down . |
| 2 | Thirty European and N. American countries have approved a UN-brokered accord to cut emissions of volatile organic compounds by 30 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | On Jan. 7 , 1989 , Saudi Aramco announced the discovery of a new high quality oil and gas field at al-Ragheeb , 123 km south-east of Riyadh ; this was the third in recent months , and it raised expectations that the three wells were part of a single huge field , which , if proven , would increase Saudi Arabia 's existing reserves by 10 per cent . |
| 4 | FORD is to put up the price of its K-reg cars by 1.8 per cent later this month . |
| 5 | Endorsed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency , the " pollution prevention " package aims to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals into the Lakes by 50 per cent over the next five years . |
| 6 | He upped the price of all his unsold pictures by twenty-five per cent , borrowed a few old ones from their owners and painted some large , meretricious canvases to make a splash . |
| 7 | On average , for a doubling of carbon dioxide concentration , C 3 plants are expected to increase yields by 10–50 per cent whereas C 4 plants may benefit by 0–10 per cent only . |
| 8 | For example , manufacturing employment fell in London between 1960 and 1981 by 51 per cent , in Birmingham by 41 per cent , in Manchester by 46 per cent , while it expanded in rural areas by 24 per cent . |
| 9 | Gloucester city council meets tonight to decide on the fate of it 's controversial plans to raise council house rents by 45 per cent and to close Gloucester law centre . |
| 10 | A representative of Ciba-Geigy 's environmental protection unit estimated that the cost of fully implementing necessary anti-pollution measures would raise the environmental expenditure of chemical companies by 10-15 per cent of total spending in the 1980s to some 25 per cent in the 1990s . |
| 11 | SPENDING on all sectors of education has risen under the Conservatives by 20 per cent in real terms , a study by the London School of Economics showed yesterday . |
| 12 | The announcement everyone had been waiting for came on time as British Telecom proposed to put up telephone bills by five per cent . |
| 13 | The Pennyland estate in Milton Keynes has over 100 houses that have been designed to catch as much sun as possible , cutting annual heating bills by 40 per cent and costing just one per cent more to build . |
| 14 | According to the government , many households could cut their fuel bills by 20 per cent or more by adopting a few " straightforward and inexpensive " measures . |
| 15 | To counteract the increased budget deficit Hamdi undertook to raise import and export duties by 30 per cent and make cuts of 10 per cent in the recurrent budget and 60 per cent in the redevelopment budget . |
| 16 | Exports rose by 9 per cent in 1989 ( albeit at a lower rate than the 14 per cent recorded in the previous two years ) , to $110,000 million ( fob ) and imports by 8 per cent , thus leaving a commercial balance of $28,000 million . |
| 17 | The members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) as a whole increased exports by 8.5 per cent , but largely as a result of the weakening of crude petroleum prices ( see pp. 36056-59 ; 36573 ) showed a decline of 1.5 per cent in imports , whereas other developing countries ' exports grew by 10 per cent and their imports by 12 per cent . |
| 18 | Hungary and the Soviet Union signed a trade protocol on April 18 providing that the Soviet Union would remain Hungary 's main trading partner ; however , Soviet exports to Hungary would decrease by 8.5 per cent and imports by 12 per cent . |
| 19 | Balcerowicz announced at a meeting of the Interim Committee of the IMF Bank on May 8 , 1990 , that Poland would seek a new agreement with its commercial and government creditors to cut Poland 's debt-servicing obligations by 80 per cent . |
| 20 | Since January thefts have fallen by 20 per cent , car crime by 15 per cent and violent offences by 14 per cent . |
| 21 | Serious crime , including murder and rape , had risen by 15 per cent , burglary by 18 per cent , and drug offences by 24 per cent . |
| 22 | Applications from companies wishing to build wind power farms have exceeded Energy Secretary John Wakeham 's expectations by 100 per cent . |
| 23 | Zelia Cardoso de Mello , his chief economic adviser , proposed to increase tax revenues by 25 per cent , reduce government spending by 10 per cent and raise $18bn ( £11.46bn ) through privatisation programmes . |
| 24 | Tougher wage controls would attempt to cut real incomes by 5 per cent , and taxes would be raised on consumer goods and some luxury items . |
| 25 | He introduced VAT on domestic fuel and power bills as well as hiking National Insurance contributions by one per cent to avoid estimated Government borrowings of £50 million next year . |
| 26 | The UNEP Executive Director , Mostafa Tolba , said that this target would require governments to " increase their voluntary contributions by 35 per cent annually for the next three years to reach the target " . |
| 27 | Yet what distinguishes the structure of Japanese industry is not only the high death rate of companies but the fact that even in the severe recession of the mid-1970s , the birth rate of new small firms exceeded the number of bankruptcies by 50 per cent . |
| 28 | In the United States , the strict new Clean Air Bill passed by the senate in April 1990 would cut carbon monoxide emissions by 70 per cent and a number of other gases by 22 per cent . |
| 29 | The agency added that Yugoslav industry had reduced emissions of ozone-damaging gases by 20 per cent since 1986 . |
| 30 | Indeed , it was this government action which encouraged employers to attempt to reduce the wages of workers by 10 per cent ; causing the coal lock-out/strike and General Strike of 1926 . |