Example sentences of "by more [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |
| 2 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 3 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 4 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 5 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Consent of the shareholders by ordinary resolution is required , unless the articles permit the board to sanction payments without shareholder approval , or provide that a resolution passed by more than a simple majority of shareholders must be obtained . |
| 8 | Perhaps Mr Heseltine 's sudden interest in television is motivated by more than a simple desire to boost British exports . |
| 9 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 10 | None of them was out by more than a few feet . |
| 11 | All too often , the antecedents of revolution are separated by more than a human lifespan from their fruition . |
| 12 | It is already clear that , for example , if the objective of the central government is to encourage local authority spending in some service , a matching grant will be preferred to a lump-sum grant , even though the lump-sum may increase the welfare of the local authority residents by more than a matching grant . |
| 13 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 14 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 15 | Sales — mostly of properties in the North-west of England , so far one of the more resilient areas in the slump - fell by more than a third , from 502 homes to 316 . |
| 16 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 19 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 20 | It was centred on Athens and felt by more than a third of the population . |
| 21 | In some areas public order and drunkenness offences are down by more than a third . |
| 22 | In real terms , gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983 . |
| 23 | Between 1982 — when Mexico threatened default — and the end of 1985 , the dividends declared by the big nine banks increased by more than a third . |
| 24 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 25 | JOB LOSSES in whisky bottling and the post office will increase unemployment in Perth by more than a third , according to a report commissioned by Tayside Regional Council . |
| 26 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 27 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 28 | But since nineteen eighty seven , daily paper sales are down by more than a tenth . |
| 29 | If the result differs from 100% by more than an agreed tolerance then a question mark is output to show doubt about the reading and the count of bad readings is incremented . |
| 30 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |