Example sentences of "were [adv prt] by [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lengths of rivers classified as " grossly polluted " were down by 56 per cent . |
| 2 | Figures from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry show that applications for places on teacher training courses for physics are , in 1989 , down by 25 per cent on 1988 , while the 1988 figures were down by 17 per cent on 1987 ( Times Educational Supplement 4 April 1989 ) . |
| 3 | According to industry estimates , sales of nablabs last year were down by 25 per cent overall on the previous 12 months . |
| 4 | The Gulf crisis caused revenues from tourism to fall by 65 per cent ( official estimate ) by December and dues from the Suez canal were down by 25 per cent compared with 1989 . |
| 5 | However , international sanctions meant that foreign loan agreements were down by 51 per cent to $4,800 million . |
| 6 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 7 | A WH Smith survey of 600 newsagents across the country showed their sales of Thursday 's paper were up by 17 per cent . |
| 8 | AIDS cases reported by end-1991 were up by 42 per cent to 446,681 , but were estimated by WHO as actually exceeding 1,500,000 . |
| 9 | Applications for shop , car and home loans were up by 5.5 per cent , suggesting that worries about the recession are beginning to ease . |
| 10 | In the food and agriculture , and engineering and metals sectors , however , business failures were up by 30 per cent and 26 per cent , respectively , over the second quarter levels . |
| 11 | Overall vehicle numbers in 1991 were up by 0.6 per cent , compared to 2.6 per cent in 1990 . |
| 12 | Britain 's non-oil exports to France were up by 12 per cent last December , compared to the same month the year before . |