Example sentences of "by a [adj -er] [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prize money will rise by a further 18 per cent during the forthcoming year , which takes the total to £16 million , considerably more than the £1.3 million on offer in 1980 . |
| 2 | By the end of the inquiry the Board admitted that this had risen by a further 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Cars : Car benefits enjoyed by company employees are to be taxed by a further 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The dollar was also devalued by a further 10 per cent in recognition that the Smithsonian Agreement , hailed by Nixon as ‘ the most significant monetary agreement in the history of the modern world ’ ( quoted Gilbert , 1980 , p. 164 ) , was insufficient to restore US competitiveness . |
| 5 | British Gas is to cut prices for domestic users by a further two per cent , the second cut this year . |
| 6 | The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent . |
| 7 | GDP fell by 9 per cent in 1991 and was expected to fall by a further 14 per cent in 1992 , which may well be an underestimate . |
| 8 | However , in a special supplement on the impact of the Gulf crisis , published in September 1990 , the IMF suggested that if the price of oil stabilized at $25 a barrel , the industrialized countries could expect growth to be cut by a further 0.25 per cent to 2.5 per cent for 1990 . |
| 9 | In December petrol prices were raised by a further 32 per cent , whilst on Jan. 3 , 1991 , Aquino signed an executive order which imposed an additional 9 per cent duty on almost all imports , including oil . |
| 10 | Industrial output fell dramatically by 23 per cent in 1990 , and by a further 19 per cent in the first four months of 1991 . |
| 11 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet , the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economic policy , Yegor Gaidar , said that Russia 's gross national product ( GNP ) , which had fallen by 11 per cent in 1991 , would fall by a further 19 per cent in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 12 | These increases continue with gross margin expected to be up by 14 per cent by the end of this year and profit increased by a further 23 per cent . |
| 13 | To reduce it by a further 20 per cent would seem to be the height of idiocy . |
| 14 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 15 | The debt would then be reduced by a further 20 per cent in the fourth year if a three-year agreement with the IMF had run its course successfully . |
| 16 | On Nov. 1 the leu was devalued by a further 60 per cent and fixed at US$1.00=35 lei , a move designed to pave the way for a partial convertibility of the Romanian currency which the government planned to introduce in January 1991 . |
| 17 | Sustainable Netherlands : A perspective for changing Northern lifestyles , suggests that the use of fossil fuels would have to be cut by 60 per cent over the next 20 years , followed by a further 60 per cent cut in the following two decades . |
| 18 | It is anticipated to grow by a further 50 per cent in the next seven years . |
| 19 | It was hoped that the concession by Paris Club members would halve Egypt 's US$20,200 million government-to-government debt by means of an immediate forgiveness of 15 per cent , followed by a further 15 per cent cut once an 18-month programme of IMF-supported economic reform had been carried out , and a further 20 per cent written off in July 1994 . |
| 20 | It then fell to 37,440 by the beginning of the following year , but in the first six months of 1989 it rose by 20 per cent to 45,1()0 and by a further 29 per cent to over 58,000 in the second half of the year . |