Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 10 the Cabinet approved a draft budget for 1992 which increased spending by 3 per cent to DM422,560 million . |
| 2 | Although agriculture remained the largest sector of the economy ( accounting for almost 20 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and 80 per cent of employment ) , there was a rapid growth in the non-sugar manufacturing sector , which had declined by 6.6 per cent in 1987 , but grew thereafter by 3.2 per cent , 5.4 per cent and 7.8 per cent respectively in subsequent years . |
| 3 | Demand was not expected to improve until the second half of the year , despite gross capital investment ( which had risen by 5 per cent in 1989 compared with 1988 , but was down by 30 per cent compared with 1980 ) . |
| 4 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Aug. 10 that the government had started distributing rice to urban residents at one-third of the free market price , which had risen by 30-50 per cent over the previous year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Industrial production ( up by 2 per cent in 1989 ) , would fall as would agricultural production ( which had increased by 5 per cent in 1989 ) . |
| 7 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 8 , 1990 , reported end-1989 figures including gross national product ( GNP ) which had increased by 4 per cent over the previous year , the slowest rate since 1976 . |
| 8 | Sao Paulo 's capitalization alone , which had dropped by 70 per cent to US$15,400 million in 1990 , had recovered to $36,900 million by May and the volume of shares transacted had risen from an estimated 17,000,000 a day in January 1991 to an estimated 40-50,000,000 a day by June . |