Example sentences of "by [no cls] [art] year " in BNC.
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1 | The intention — set out in Plan for Action — was to increase consultant numbers by 2.8% a year while keeping constant the number of senior registrars and reducing modestly the number of career registrars . |
2 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
3 | Before the Gulf war the International Civil Aviation Organisation forecast that international scheduled-passenger traffic in the region would grow by 10.5% a year to the end of the century , compared with global growth of only 6.7% . |
4 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
5 | A study by Robert Gordon , at Northwestern University , estimated that America 's inflation rate was overstated by 1.5-2% a year between 1947 and 1983 because of the failure to adjust for the improving quality of consumer durables . |
6 | London International has 48% of the European condom market , which is growing by 2-3% a year . |
7 | As a result , the Gas Research Institute , an industry think tank , predicts that gas prices will rise by 4.2% a year in real terms during the 1990s . |