Example sentences of "[vb past] grown [prep] [num] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four-fifths of households already had a television set by 1962 and the figure had grown to 98 per cent in 1988 ( with 53 per cent having added a video recorder ) . |
| 2 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 3 | By 1986 the gap had grown to 20.5 per cent . |
| 4 | The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing . |
| 5 | By 1986 , thy bumiputra share of equity among the 173 members of the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and Industry , which broadly represented the international business community , had grown to 21 per cent . |
| 6 | A mid-year 15 per cent position in Japan had grown to 30 per cent after the Japanese government 's fiscal package . |
| 7 | Kiyonga said that gross domestic product ( GDP ) had grown by 6.8 per cent in 1989/90 , slightly down on the 1988/89 growth rate of 7.2 per cent . |
| 8 | Figures for the first half of 1990 showed that the trade gap had grown by 62 per cent to $1,870 million . |
| 9 | The central bank 's annual report , released in February 1991 , showed that GDP had grown by 2.3 per cent in 1990 , but would slow in the 12 months to end-June 1991 as a result of an increase in oil prices and the loss of remittances from Iraq caused by the Gulf war . |
| 10 | Measured in value terms , world trade in 1988 had grown by 14 per cent to USdollars 2,880,000 million during 1988 . |
| 11 | Official figures released on Feb. 9 showed that the Czechoslovak economy had grown by 1.7 per cent in 1989 , compared with 2.8 per cent the previous year . |
| 12 | Since 1972 ( the run-up to the Middle East oil crisis ) , the amount of heated space per capita in homes in most OECD countries had grown by 25 per cent . |
| 13 | Industrial production , he said , had grown by 5.5 per cent in 1989 , less than expected because of interrupted production in the second half of the year due to sabotage of power transmission lines to Maputo from South Africa . |
| 14 | Halsey ( 1986 ) suggested that the steady fall in Labour 's percentage share of the vote from 1964 to 1983 was attributable not primarily to people of a given social class voting differently over time , but to a straightforward decline in the working-class population , which affected many parliamentary constituencies : ‘ The dominant class had grown from 18 per cent of the electorate in 1964 to 29 per cent in 1983 while the working-class proportion had dropped from 47 to 31 per cent ’ ( Halsey , 1986 , 88 ) . |