Example sentences of "have [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 2 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 3 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 4 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 5 | The balance of this reduced population has changed dramatically : the proportion of under-fives has dropped by a quarter , and the numbers of those at school leaving age by just under a quarter , giving an overall decline of 15 per cent in the population aged under fifteen . |
| 6 | Comparing this point in the economic cycle with the same point 10 years ago , during that period manufacturing output has risen by a quarter , manufacturing investment by a third , manufacturing productivity by a half and manufacturing exports by three quarters . |
| 7 | In the past year , unemployment has risen by a massive 47 per cent. , but instead of rising by a similar amount , expenditure in 1991-92 will be 10 per cent . |
| 8 | Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously , investment has actually fallen . |
| 9 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 10 | — a substantial reduction — and the number waiting longer than one year has reduced by a quarter . |
| 11 | In the last year , the construction level in the province has crumbled by a massive 18.5pc . |
| 12 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 13 | According to Kovda ( 1983 ) soil erosion has increased by a factor of five since the beginning of settled agriculture and has resulted in the destruction of c. 4.3 × 10 ha of productive land . |
| 14 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 15 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 16 | Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that under this Government manufacturing output has increased by a quarter whereas it fell under the last Labour Government ? |
| 17 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 18 | In setting out to achieve such aims , an advertiser usually has to abide by a number of laws and codes of practice . |
| 19 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 20 | A car driven by Shaun Gooch crashed into a group of young people , who 'd gathered by a bench on the side of Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 21 | If we 'd have put in a price based on A C scaled fees , we would have overspent by a hundred and fifty five percent . |
| 22 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
| 23 | An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong . |
| 24 | That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . |
| 25 | Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin . |
| 26 | Against Tipperary , Galway showed superb resilience and determination , quenching the fire and verve of Babs ' Keating 's side to such an extent that they could and should have won by a much greater margin . |
| 27 | If a comparable relationship between protein synthesis in colonic mucosa and in the whole body existed in man , then colonic protein synthesis would have to increase by a factor of 80 to account for a doubling of whole body protein synthesis . |
| 28 | The yen may have appreciated by a far smaller percentage , but this time the currency was already strong . |
| 29 | Education is now better resourced , with spending on each schoolchild having increased by a massive 42 per cent in the last 12 years . |
| 30 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive . |