Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 2 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 3 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 4 | The chill worked its way into her bones and she curled up , trying to preserve her warmth , knowing she was failing as her body became racked by one continuous shiver . |
| 5 | The discipline became dominated by two new theoretical models : first a functionalist theory of synchronic adaptation , and later structuralism . |
| 6 | and light got bruised by 4 o'clock . |
| 7 | Kevin said : ‘ The front wheels ran over him and he got caught by one leg . |
| 8 | He entered accompanied by four others . |
| 9 | The figures showed that in 1981-91 the area of vegetables grown in England and Wales fell by 10 per cent but the area treated with pesticides increased by 40 per cent ; the volume used fell by 10 per cent , as pesticides became less bulky . |
| 10 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 11 | The number of letters received showed a sharp increase to just over 6,000 in 1992 , 30% more than in 1991 , while the number of telephone calls received increased by 2,500 to nearly 42,000 . |
| 12 | Central South saw what they 'd achieved by 1991 , and now we 've been back to check on progress . |
| 13 | There was other evidence that , with a moderate ( 2 to 3 per cent ) rate of economic growth , the demographic trends would not impose pressures on the public purse until 2020 and a crisis would occur only if the economy failed to grow by 2 per cent or more . |
| 14 | It predicts a reasonably robust US recovery , with the industrial world 's economy expected to grow by 3¼ per cent this year . |
| 15 | Rachel fidgets round the room like it 's a hotel we got to leave by ten . |
| 16 | And holders are also using them more frequently — the number of transactions and the amount spent increased by 90 per cent in 1991 . |
| 17 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 18 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 19 | Even if the economy kept growing by six per cent a year until 2000 AD , real wages would fall three per cent from current levels . |
| 20 | On July 10 the Cabinet approved a draft budget for 1992 which increased spending by 3 per cent to DM422,560 million . |
| 21 | THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase . |
| 22 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 23 | Profitability had fallen by one-third and the fast and highly synchronized boom of the previous couple of years had failed to restore it . |
| 24 | Yet by 1911 its population had fallen by four thousand . |
| 25 | At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year . |
| 26 | A government survey of student expenditure , published in April 1988 , showed that since 1982 alone the real value of the grant had fallen by 6.2 per cent . |
| 27 | Finland 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had fallen by 6.2 per cent in 1991 in part as a result of the collapse of Finland 's traditional Soviet markets , and the government had devalued the markka in November 1991 [ see p. 38587 ] . |
| 28 | The yen had fallen by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , and by 25 per cent in the twelve months since March 1989 . |
| 29 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet , the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economic policy , Yegor Gaidar , said that Russia 's gross national product ( GNP ) , which had fallen by 11 per cent in 1991 , would fall by a further 19 per cent in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 30 | He also admitted that party membership had fallen by 4,200,000 in the previous 18 months to 15,000,000 — the level of 1973 . |