Example sentences of "by more than [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since last summer , revenues from , eg , M&A , property , issues of securities , and much corporate work have fallen by more than that . |
| 2 | You would have to fly around the world four hundred million times to add one second to your life ; but your life would be reduced by more than that by all those airline meals . |
| 3 | If yields rise the price of B falls by less than the price of A , while if yields fall the price of B rises by more than that of A. High convexity is therefore a desirable property for bonds to have . |
| 4 | but then if you read the report of the match it said they could have won by more than that , they did all playing they were just unlucky , but he 's pleased with the result |
| 5 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 6 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 7 | The real net incomes of beef and sheep farmers have fallen by more than half since 1984 , as have land prices in real terms . |
| 8 | The OECD , in its latest review of Ireland , forecasts that growth will fall by more than half this year , to 2.2% ; and it worries that the government 's hard-headed policies are going soft . |
| 9 | Lead emissions from British vehicles fell by more than half between 1975 and 1988 . |
| 10 | Investment in design and manufacturing technology was £11m in 1991 and new machining centres have increased productivity by more than half in some areas of the Glasgow operation . |
| 11 | Even the Japanese are not immune , with Fujitsu and Toshiba both reporting profits slashed by more than half . |
| 12 | THE annual rate of inflation was reduced by more than half during the three Conservative administrations after May , 1979 , but unemployment more than doubled during that time . |
| 13 | Japanese share prices are down by more than half , and share values form part of the bank 's capital base . |
| 14 | Last year its earnings rose by more than half , to £664 million , making a large contribution to the balance of payments . |
| 15 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 16 | With profits virtually wiped out , the payout has been slashed by more than half . |
| 17 | Manufacturing productivity has risen by more than half since 1979 — faster than in any other major industrial country . |
| 18 | And this would reveal that the Covenant 's structure was by nature essentially Western , a product of European parliamentary equality grafted on to a newly independent nation whose very existence had been contested by more than half its population for more than two decades . |
| 19 | Grants for ploughing grassland and cereal deficiency payments made barley more profitable than sheep , numbers of which fell by more than half between 1926 and 1954 . |
| 20 | This will cut the cost of solar cells by more than half , and increase their ability to convert light to electricity . |
| 21 | Retail turnover was up 28 per cent , and in some branches , such as vehicles and electrical goods , by more than half . |
| 22 | With this new dismantling process , BMW hopes to reduce by 46 per cent the waste which is dumped in the environment and , in the years ahead , aims to cut it down by more than half again . |
| 23 | Nitrous oxide , or laughing gas , appears to reduce the chances of conceiving by more than half , according to scientists at the National Institute of Dental Research in the United States . |
| 24 | It 's the latest in a series of grim , hard-hitting ads that have helped to cut by more than half the tally of deaths in accidents involving drunken drivers . |
| 25 | Overall Thomas Wilcox increased Crocker 's loan book by more than half , from $19bn to $29bn . |
| 26 | BASF 's pre-tax profit slumped by more than half , from DM4.4bn to DM2.1bn , between 1989 and 1991 . |
| 27 | Its vote fell by more than half . |
| 28 | By this point the wealth of the local clothiers had in fact been reduced by more than half , though taxation , while extracting huge sums from the community at large , had taken little more than £1,100 , far less than had been withdrawn from the industry by the Springs . |
| 29 | Instead of keeping numbers of senior registrars constant , JPAC 's quotas will see them rising by more than half to over 5100 , while career registrar quotas are more than 40% over target at almost 4700 . |
| 30 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |