Example sentences of "a [adj] increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 2 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 3 | Although the plans were later cut back , the Suez crisis encouraged a three-fold increase in the then current plans for new nuclear power stations . |
| 4 | Increased oil revenues in 1990 [ see p. 38071 ] accounting for a rise in foreign exchange allotments for several industries , were reported to have made possible a three-fold increase in car production , announced by the Ministry of Heavy Industries on Aug. 6 . |
| 5 | The key demands of the protest were a monthly minimum wage of the equivalent of US$536 , a three-fold increase in the basic pension to US$450 , reform of legislation linking pay to productivity and a new collective wage bargaining law . |
| 6 | The Middle East was the most successful region and a three-fold increase in activity is in prospect there in 1993 . |
| 7 | As for London , a three-fold increase in tonnage cleared did not lead very quickly to a solution to the severe congestion of the Pool , on which was concentrated a cargo handling facility employing 120,000 men . |
| 8 | Complaints received during 1991 totalled 2,040 against a normal annual total of 600 — more than a three-fold increase . |
| 9 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 10 | Thus , the court has refused to imply a term that a landlord entitled to recover the cost of insurance from his tenant is obliged to choose the cheapest method of insuring ( Bandar Property Holdings Ltd v Darwen ( JS ) ( Successors ) Ltd [ 1968 ] 2 All ER 305 ) or that the tenant is under an obligation not to use the demised property for an immoral purpose ( Burfort Financial Investments Ltd v Chotard ( 1976 ) 239 EGH 891 ) or that the landlord is entitled to interest on a retrospective increase in rent ( Trust House Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( 1980 ) 256 EG 915 ) . |
| 11 | Each stage is characterized by a simultaneous increase in abstraction and particularization , which are held in tension with one another , and each is taken to present greater difficulties for the subject attempting to resolve these into its own development . |
| 12 | The non-epileptogenic hippocampus shows a smaller increase in glutamate concentration beginning after seizure onset , and a simultaneous increase in GABA concentration which is larger than that on the epileptogenic side . |
| 13 | Calculate the net effect on national income of an increase in C of 12 and a simultaneous increase in T of 20 . |
| 14 | They did not look up or catch his eye , but there was a perceptible tremor along the work benches , a subtle increase in the carefulness and precision of their movements as the boss passed . |
| 15 | It has already been pointed out that the 1975 glitch left a persistent increase of 0.05% in slowdown rate ; the available data between 1975 and 1989 show no indication of a decay in this increase . |
| 16 | This subtype of glutamate receptor endows long-term potentiation with Hebbian characteristics , and allows electrical events at the postsynaptic membrane to be transduced into chemical signals which , in turn , are thought to activate both pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms to generate a persistent increase in synaptic strength . |
| 17 | LTP is expressed as a persistent increase in the size of the synaptic component of the evoked response , recorded from individual cells or from populations of neurons . |
| 18 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 19 | Over the past two decades a possible increase in the incidence of anal cancer has been noted , especially in American communities known for their high representation of homosexual men . |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia ( whose Petroleum Minister Shaikh Hisham Nazer did not attend the meeting himself , on grounds of " exhaustion " ) entered reservations for the opposite reason , to keep its options open for a possible increase in Saudi production above 8,000,000 bpd ( its allocation being 7,880,000 ) . |
| 21 | But this year satellite monitoring indicates a possible increase in the incidence of burnings , after a rainy season shorter than usual gave way to three months ' drought . |
| 22 | The English Crown was trapped at every stage by the gentry , to the point where the king was beheaded and a military dictatorship established ( with , for the first time , a standing army , accompanied by a five-fold increase in the tax burden ) . |
| 23 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 24 | For married women under 60 there was a five-fold increase from 12 per cent in 1931 to 57 per cent at the 1981 census . |
| 25 | In 1991/92 the rates were £23.35 and the water rates were £42.37 ; the corresponding figures for 1992/93 are £127.04 and £121.39 — a five-fold increase in rates and nearly threefold in water rates . |
| 26 | This year , MHW and the Ministry of Finance agreed on an AIDS budget that exceeds 10.1 billion yen , a five-fold increase over last year 's spending . |
| 27 | The measures were put forward by leading European advisor on public transport , John Whitelegg , and are based on a five-fold increase in fuel costs combined with a cut in income tax . |
| 28 | The second factor that argues against the theory that only a low increase in inflation will result from devaluation is the attitude of the workforce , where wages account for 60% of unit costs . |
| 29 | ‘ Net investment income showed a strong increase , partly as a result of lower interest costs arising from our continuing commitment to reduce overall borrowings . |
| 30 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |