Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] by more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 2 | and retail price inflation has fallen by more than half . |
| 3 | Modern agriculture requires investment to survive , but investment has fallen by more than half since the Government took office . |
| 4 | Over the past twenty years , the number who look at papers has fallen by more than a quarter . |
| 5 | The incidence of car crime in the UK as a whole has fallen by more than 2.5pc , reversing a three-year rising trend , the Government announced yesterday . |
| 6 | In an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party has voted by more than 5-1 to declare itself an independent party . |
| 7 | Since the introduction of a differential fee , however , the number of visits in Berkshire undertaken by deputies has dropped by more than half , yet overall numbers have risen steeply . |
| 8 | Manufacturing productivity has risen by more than half since 1979 — faster than in any other major industrial country . |
| 9 | Singapore 's trouble is that as soon as its economy starts to grow by more than 6–7% , the labour market tends to get tight . |
| 10 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 11 | In Oxfordshire , the amount of land under concrete has increased by more than half — and in Wiltshire the increase was seventy-nine per cent . |
| 12 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 13 | It 's the latest in a series of grim , hard-hitting ads that have helped to cut by more than half the tally of deaths in accidents involving drunken drivers . |
| 14 | For official statistics have become tainted by more than disagreement : the charges being levelled against the service amount to the politicisation of knowledge , a form of intellectual corruption and a scandalous abuse of power . |
| 15 | but then if you read the report of the match it said they could have won by more than that , they did all playing they were just unlucky , but he 's pleased with the result |
| 16 | In the United Kingdom , for example , between 1965 and 1973 , the fall in the pre-tax rate of profit to shareholders was one-seventh , while the return on all capital employed fell by more than one-quarter . |
| 17 | Priests in the Tambov area , the centre of peasant revolt in 1921 , reported in 1922 that church attendance had dropped by more than half as compared with pre-1914 . |
| 18 | The Tokyo stock market had dropped by more than a fifth in 1990 , with the Nikkei average falling on April 3 by 1,978.38 points to 28,002.07 , a drop of 6.6 per cent , the second largest one-day fall in the exchange 's history and the steepest decline since the crash of October 1987 . |
| 19 | The real net incomes of beef and sheep farmers have fallen by more than half since 1984 , as have land prices in real terms . |
| 20 | Since last summer , revenues from , eg , M&A , property , issues of securities , and much corporate work have fallen by more than that . |
| 21 | Vacancies for chief executives and managing directors have risen by more than one-third in the last year , while senior managerial vacancies have increased by 17.4 p.c . |
| 22 | The low-income groups and pensioners spend a higher proportion of their money on food and fuel , whose prices have risen by more than other items , and so the inflation index for these groups has risen faster than inflation for the average person . |
| 23 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |