Example sentences of "[vb infin] by [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average £350 package tour would jump by 10 per cent , with more exotic trips likely to incur larger increases , Sidney Perez told the conference . |
| 2 | in the past year , and that it will fall by 4.4 per cent . |
| 3 | This assertion was grounded on results of several studies , including one based upon the 25 WFS countries mentioned above and which reported that if all mothers had seven or more years of schooling , other things being equal ( that is , all mothers ' offspring would have the same conditions concerning survival as those observed for the educated mothers ' newborn babies ) , infant mortality would fall by 41 per cent and death rates of children aged 1–4 by 60 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) . |
| 4 | Investment will decline by 2 per cent and employment will fall by 1 per cent , ie twice the 1991 rate . |
| 5 | Between 1973 and 1979 all but one of the five most highly paid occupational groups experienced a fall in their real incomes : members of the most highly paid occupational group of all ( professional , management , administration ) saw their incomes fall by 5 per cent in real terms . |
| 6 | Even if non-users started to use the least effective contraceptive methods the abortion rate could fall by 30 per cent ( Westoff , Hammerslough , and Paul 1987 ) . |
| 7 | According to a report in the Financial Times of June 1 , 1990 , a government adviser , Stanislaw Gomulka , had estimated that GDP could fall by 15 per cent in 1990 , with a steady 7 per cent recovery in growth from 1992 . |
| 8 | The Pharmaceutical division saw profits fall by 20 per cent to £120.8m , on sales of £484.1m ( £478.5m ) , while profits rose in Scientific Equipment division from £67.2m to £68.4m , and in Horticulture division from £10.4m to £11.5m . |
| 9 | Hence , if the learning phenomenon appropriate to a particular firm indicates that average costs ( over cumulative volume to date , not average cost in the year ) will fall by 20 per cent each time cumulative output doubles , one says that the learning rate is 80 per cent on 0.8 |
| 10 | Between 1980/81 and 1985/86 almost two-thirds of local authorities fell short of the target increases of 2 per cent a year , and the most recent expenditure plans indicate that between 1988/89 and 1990/91 real expenditure on the personal social services will fall by 0.7 per cent . |
| 11 | ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . ) |
| 12 | Will he confirm that investment will fall in 1992 ; that business investment will fall by 3 per cent ; and , that hundreds of thousands of men and women in this country are in danger of losing their jobs if the Government continue in office ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | CU now wants to increase its range of policies and promote them heavily to the growing 50 to 64-year-old market , which will grow by 27 per cent by 2015 . |
| 15 | In late December 1990 the Cabinet approved the budget for the fiscal year beginning in April 1991 , in which it was predicted that the economy would grow by 3.8 per cent . |
| 16 | On the brighter side , however , unemployment will grow by 11.4 per cent , compared with 15.8 per cent nationally . |
| 17 | Investment will decline by 2 per cent and employment will fall by 1 per cent , ie twice the 1991 rate . |
| 18 | Well no it does n't sound by that er letter you wrote . |
| 19 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 20 | Models have shown that , with a 20 per cent conversion across Britain , cereal production would decrease by six per cent , oil seed rape by 12 per cent and milk by four per cent — not an enormous reduction when you consider the already existing and wasted surpluses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | According to the OTA , US emissions of carbon dioxide could decrease by 35 per cent within 25 years by introducing taxes on energy consumption and tougher standards to promote energy efficiency . |
| 23 | It 's a product built for safety , even though S&P confidently predicts that share prices will soar by 50 per cent in the next three years . |
| 24 | The company , which also makes Scalextric , saw profits crash by 70 per cent to £158,000 in the first half of this year . |
| 25 | Yes , the metabolic rate can reduce by 10 per cent during a calorie-restricted diet . |
| 26 | An Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) report has predicted that organic farming will expand by 25 per cent a year over the next five years . |
| 27 | I repeat that there is no need for any school budget in Northumberland to be cut at a time when its overall expenditure can increase by 5.4 per cent . |
| 28 | Overall government revenue was expected to increase only marginally in 1990-91 to S$15,600 million while expenditure would increase by 9.1 per cent to S$14,100 million . |
| 29 | Despite the reassuring noises of the Royal Commission in 1979 , by 1984 the UK 's Standing Technical Advisory Committee on Water Quality ( STACWQ ) reported that , if present trends of fertiliser use were to continue , mean nitrogen levels in surface waters would increase by 2–3 mg/litre ( as nitrogen ) by 1994–2004 and this would cause widespread breaches of the 11.3 mg/litre nitrogen level ( 50 mg/litre nitrate ) . |
| 30 | The budget forecast that overall government expenditure would increase by 15.4 per cent in the 1991/92 fiscal year to S$15,800 million . |