Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1973 oil consumption has decreased by some 40% . |
| 2 | From Table I ( p. 15 ) it can be seen that while the amount of broad-leaved high forest has increased by some five per cent. , the increase in coniferous high forest has been 18 per cent . |
| 3 | He stressed that while the world population continued to increase by some 80,000,000 people a year , adequate nutrition was likely to remain a key problem . |
| 4 | The numbers waiting two years have fallen by some 31 per cent . |
| 5 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 6 | In general , studies of women prose writers have outstripped by some distance studies of poets apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Countess of Winchilsea . |
| 7 | However , perhaps the most telling , if simplistic , feature is the fact that the group 's total workforce has expanded by some 25 per cent to toal about 1000 , of which roughly 300 are employed in the UK . |
| 8 | SMOKING among 16–19 year olds in Britain has dropped by some 15 per cent over the past decade , according to a new survey of the habits of young people carried out by the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 9 | Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year . |
| 10 | Electricity prices have fallen by some 2 per cent . |
| 11 | • In real terms , Treasury revenue since 1979 from duty on Scotch Whisky has fallen by 45% , while revenue from all alcohol duty has fallen by some 10% . |
| 12 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 13 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |