Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 recorded fraud cases numbered 39,651 of a total of 806,900 crimes , and by 1986 this had increased by 210 per cent to 122,802 of 3,857,400 by 1986 . |
| 2 | For many years prior to 1976 , foreign policy questions had headed Gallup polls as the most important issues in presidential campaigns , but all this had changed by 1980 . |
| 3 | These had risen by 70,000 in the month from mid-August , and Mr Murdoch said the group was likely to reach the target of one million homes by 1 February 1990 . |
| 4 | THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase . |
| 5 | Delegates at a congress of the ruling Labour Party on Nov. 8 had voted by 183 votes to 106 in favour of re-applying . |
| 6 | Prior to the coup attempt the applications approved by the Philippine Board of Investments for 1989 had increased by 128 per cent to be worth a total of $781,600,000 . |
| 7 | Tourism provided 16 per cent of revenue ; tourist visitors in 1988 had increased by 12 per cent . |
| 8 | Measured in value terms , world trade in 1988 had grown by 14 per cent to USdollars 2,880,000 million during 1988 . |
| 9 | The report estimated that trade in commercial services in 1990 had increased by 12 per cent to about US$770,000 million . |
| 10 | By 1908 Wilson noted that the 1,000 or so Chinese seamen shipped at United Kingdom ports in 1905 had increased by 1907 to 5,000 and a deputation of 40 seamen was organised to wait upon Winston Churchill , then President of the Board of Trade . |