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Example sentences of "[to-vb] by [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1	Everything else being equal ( which it wo n't be , of course ) , payroll taxes and social-security contributions would have to increase by as much as 40% .
2	This later proved a very good idea because the finished panel drew in , in the same way as regular cable panels and I needed to know by how much .
3	One needs to know by how much , for example , screening for breast cancer reduces mortality from the disease in order to determine whether a screening programme is worthwhile .
4	But we need to know by how much .
5	It is obviously important to the managers of such organisations to be able to predict by how much the process will improve after particular lengths of time and numbers of products made .
6	As the 1988 Education Reform Act comes into effect , the local authorities ' share of educational expenditure is diminishing and will probably continue to diminish , though it is impossible to predict by how much .
7	Inglis calculated the stress concentration factor , that is to say by how many times the stress is increased locally , not only for rectangular hatchways , but also for other openings such as round and elliptical holes .
8	Sadler said write-offs related to acquisitions during the fiscal fourth quarter to April 30 will affect fourth quarter profits but declined to say by how much .
9	Smithers & Co expects capital spending to fall by almost half before this adjustment is complete .
10	There are , therefore , some grounds for modest optimism that the slump in the housing market may come to an end this year , although prices are likely to fall by as much as 3% or 4% from current levels before stabilising .
11	More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) .