Example sentences of "[noun] increased [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From August 1982 to August 1984 , GKR 's turnover increased from £963000 to £2.5m. , and profits from £46000 to £439000 . |
| 2 | Turnover increased from £81.6m to £106.1m in the same period . |
| 3 | Total pancreatic DNA content per 100 g body weight increased by 34% at two weeks ( p<0.05 ) and by 82% at three weeks ( p<0.05 ) , while RNA content increased by 60% and 178% ( p<0.001 ) and protein content by 20% and 57% ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 4 | The plasma gastrin concentrations increased from group to group as expected from the dose given . |
| 5 | Trading profits for the six months increased from £6.9million to £8.36million , but profit from property sell-offs fell and interest charges jumped from £32,000 to £461,000 , leaving pre-tax profits just £274,000 ahead at £9.4million . |
| 6 | The electorate increased in size from a little under 500,000 to 813,000 electors . |
| 7 | In the 1946–81 period , total livestock units increased by 39% throughout the UK , though with considerable regional variation . |
| 8 | Although SAVE believes that alternative uses are possible for most types of buildings , including churches , the Holy Name was an exception and our fears for its future increased with rumours of purchase offers from McDonald 's . |
| 9 | In total numbers the army of officialdom increased from 1.3m to 1.7m between 1960 and 1975 [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 10 | Also , the proportion of households containing one person living alone increased between 1981 and 1991 from 22% to 26% , and the proportion of households containing only one adult and at least one child increased from 2% to 4% . |
| 11 | The proportion of all families with dependent children headed by a lone parent increased from 8% in 1971 to 19% in 1990 . |
| 12 | The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients . |
| 13 | The level of imports increased by 300% between 1985 and 1986 , coming predominantly from the Eastern bloc , North Africa , and the Middle East . |
| 14 | The incidence of severe acute renal failure increased with age from 17.1 cases per million population per year in adults under 50 to 949 cases per million per year in the 80 to 89 age group ( table I ) . |
| 15 | First half losses before tax increased from £17.7m to £30.6m at Ratners ; Gerald Ratner received much criticism and there were calls for his resignation at the company 's agm . |
| 16 | Profit before tax increased by 39% to £233 million ( 1988 £168 million ) and includes £37 million contribution from NEI . |
| 17 | This difference increased to £16.30 among mothers whose youngest child was over 10 years old ( 1983 figures ) . |
| 18 | Figures released in a new report by the county 's RSPCA show that cruelty complaints reached a new high of 10,561 last year and convictions for cruelty to dogs increased by 12pc to 183 . |
| 19 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 20 | In Thailand , we doubled the size of our retail fuels and lubricants operations , while in Malaysia our sales volumes increased by 14% in 1992 . |
| 21 | After 1979 , the Thatcher administration announced wide-ranging cuts , yet the ratio of general government expenditure to GDP increased from 41% in the last year of the Labour government to 46.8% in 1982/83 . |
| 22 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
| 23 | Earnings per share increased from 17.8p to 18.0p . |
| 24 | According to a 1990 market study by market researchers Mintel , the UK market for golf goods increased from £153m in 1983 to £250m in 1990 . |
| 25 | The responsibilities of the regional and area committees increased in line with the numbers of refugee children needing care . |
| 26 | Among Asian populations in the United States ( Asian in this case referring to Chinese , Japanese , Vietnamese , or Philippino , defined by mother 's own report ) , the incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome increased with period of residence . |
| 27 | The amount of debt of the 400 families increased from £295,113 in 1984 to £836,409 in 1987 , an increase of 183 per cent . |
| 28 | This study showed that fasting gall bladder volume increased after treatment with octreotide . |
| 29 | In World War I the traffic increased by way of the requirements of the armed forces , as it did during World War 11 . |
| 30 | The likelihood of Britain having to meet her obligations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula increased in step with the raucousness of Radio Cairo 's ‘ The Voice of the Arabs ’ , adjuring all true followers of Islam to oust every vestige of European colonialism from their lands . |