Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 2 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 3 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 4 | In the 1990 general election the UMNO candidate in Bayu had won by a majority of 5,774 . |
| 5 | If they 're controlled well dad , everyone knows that one th the Tackleby 's controlled by a man . |
| 6 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 7 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Ibn Fayoud had stopped by a Jaguar XJS . |
| 9 | It was reported on April 7 that Lithuania 's Supreme Council had voted by a majority of 70 to suspend the mandate of Deputy Virgilijus Cepaitis . |
| 10 | That 's the end of the game , that 's the end of it because on on erm once h Holland needed to lose right , they had to lose , Holland , and er Poland needed to beat Holland and England had to win by a seven goal majority I E seven nil or eight one , seven one would n't have been enough even if Holland had lost |
| 11 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 12 | In the Czechoslovakian town of Bratislava , cancers have risen by a third , heart complaints by 40 per cent , infant mortality by two-thirds and miscarriages by half since 1970 , thanks to deadly air pollutants from nearby industries . |
| 13 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 14 | According to Kovda ( 1983 ) soil erosion has increased by a factor of five since the beginning of settled agriculture and has resulted in the destruction of c. 4.3 × 10 ha of productive land . |
| 15 | This is more than the change that inner London received , and I think it 's quite unbelievable that York 's population , base population is actually starting of from the figure of er a hundred and three , a hundred and four thousand , and I think York City Council will agree with that in any case , erm , the new major estimates for nineteen ninety two would already suggest that that population 's declined by a further thousand , which I think emphasizes that these major estimates are estimates , and because of the differ the difficulties within the census for nineteen ninety one , with under enumeration , some problems may have occurred . |
| 16 | Comparing this point in the economic cycle with the same point 10 years ago , during that period manufacturing output has risen by a quarter , manufacturing investment by a third , manufacturing productivity by a half and manufacturing exports by three quarters . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that under this Government manufacturing output has increased by a quarter whereas it fell under the last Labour Government ? |
| 18 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 19 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 20 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |
| 21 | Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously , investment has actually fallen . |
| 22 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 23 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 24 | Education is now better resourced , with spending on each schoolchild having increased by a massive 42 per cent in the last 12 years . |
| 25 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 26 | I think also if you read it through there 's no insurance jargon in there at all , except to say that the policy 's underwritten by a Department of Trade approved insurer . |
| 27 | Sales of the low-priced Czech motor have soared by a quarter in crisis-hit Britain this year . |
| 28 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 29 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 30 | Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third . |