Example sentences of "[adv] a increase in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 2 | Erm and accepting that would mean er obviously an increase in rent and perhaps changes in that lease er in order that he would be able to er to invest that money . |
| 3 | Thus an increase in money supply will lower interest rates . |
| 4 | Under Labour , the financial community would require a ‘ risk premium ’ to stay in sterling — possibly an increase in interest rates of more than two per cent . |
| 5 | This was more an increase in efficiency than in output . |
| 6 | Hence an increase in output from Y 1 to Y 2 will reduce the price level from P 1 to P 2 while the level of money wages remains unchanged at W . |
| 7 | However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | The substantial increase sought in industrial R&D will strip dry its sources of people and ideas if there is not also an increase in funding of the science base through the research councils and universities . |
| 9 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 10 | Sometimes this success is at the expense of food production , but more often an increase in productivity is achieved across all crops . |
| 11 | There can be no doubt that , if Labour 's pledges are implemented , even an increase in taxation from 40 per cent . |
| 12 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 13 | Spreading : The name given to the effect whereby an increase in exposure causes a subject to be seen as larger . |
| 14 | But she knew it was n't an increase in affection — it was simply that he represented safety . |
| 15 | The advantages are fairly clear and straightforward ; both directly and indirectly , it brings about an increase in employment and incomes in rural areas . |
| 16 | The section of the Education Reform Act 1988 , which forces all LEAs to devolve financial power to the schools in the form of Local Management of Schools , is only one of the many new initiatives designed , apparently , to bring about an increase in quality . |
| 17 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 18 | Show how an increase in money supply will have a larger effect on national income . |
| 19 | If , as has been guestimated , a draughtsman spends two-thirds of his time doing conceptual thinking , looking up tables , doing calculations , checking , etc. , and only one-third of his time with a pencil in his hand at the drawing-board , then an increase in productivity at the drawing-board itself of 300 per cent would mean an overall productivity increase in line with observed job reductions . |
| 20 | When these characters were combined with letters in a third experiment there was again an increase in reaction time with set size for the RVF but only for letters , not for the typological characters . |
| 21 | The direct mechanism is where an increase in money supply leads people directly to spend the resulting excess of money supply over money demand . |
| 22 | The SWA therefore urges that the practice of index linking excise duty on spirits should be discontinued , and that there should be neither an increase in excise duties , nor revalorisation , until present differentials have been substantially eroded . |
| 23 | During gastrulation , differences in cell adhesion guide the cells ; during lens formation the lens cells lose adhesion with adjacent cells at the time of detachment ; and somite formation is essentially an increase in adhesiveness locally . |
| 24 | So that 's been very important , economies of scale are very important in the erm , the growth of manufacturing trade , which is essentially an increase in intra , in intra industry trade , as , as opposed to inter industry trade which is erm the simultaneous import and export of er products from different industries like produce capital goods , so cars and in return you will import erm food products but the majority of the increase in world trade has come from this intra industry variety . |