Example sentences of "actually [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 2 | The economy had grown by only 0.6 per cent over the four years to the end of 1990 , and actually shrank by 0.3 per cent during 1990 itself . |
| 3 | It actually grew by 1.5% . |
| 4 | Outside agriculture the number of self-employed actually grew by 1 million , while falling substantially as a proportion of total employment . |
| 5 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 6 | And so if we look at what happened generally between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two the general picture is that the number of total holidays taken actually fell by three percent . |
| 7 | For a reception there and they actually went by coach to the opening ceremony |