Example sentences of "by [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gradual process of returning the country to civilian rule has been undertaken ; in November 1986 the electorate approved by referendum a Constitution establishing a one-party system , the Central African Democratic Assembly ( Rassemblement démocratique centrafricain — RDC ) holding its inaugural congress in February 1987 . |
| 2 | Orders are processed much faster and the firm has cut procurement costs by $10m a year . |
| 3 | The aim is to cut manufacturing and operating costs by $10m a quarter and return to profit in the fourth quarter . |
| 4 | Bills will increase by £60 a year after valuation officers bungled when working out charges based on property bands . |
| 5 | Following Mr Howard 's intervention poll tax bills will be reduced by £14 a saving of 27p-per-week . |
| 6 | I once knew by heart a poem by the Russian , Fyodor Tyuchev entitled Vyesna ( Spring ) . |
| 7 | By contrast a fall in investment in ‘ oil and gas ’ , principally in the North Sea , was associated with depleting reserves . |
| 8 | By contrast a rally was held in Manezh Square on the following day in support of the authority of the army and CPSU and the indissolubility of the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | By contrast a child 's bedroom seems safe . |
| 10 | By contrast a lava flow-front is more likely to have a cross-section something like that in Figure 7.7 ( d ) . |
| 11 | Close by stand a number of well-renovated half-timbered dwellings , known as Mill Cottages . |
| 12 | The group will concentrate on developing the technology , rather than producing systems it will work closely with the University Research Group set up by ICL a year ago . |
| 13 | To quote a price by rail is quite simple and to despatch by rail a matter of plainest routine , but it is not so with canals . |
| 14 | IN the Budget it was said that beer was going up by 1p a pint , was it not ? |
| 15 | If a person is an animal , then by transitivity a student is an animal . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if the simulation is to be carried out by computer a way must be found of getting the computer to generate random sequences of numbers such as would be obtained by throwing a dice a number of times . |
| 17 | Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year . |
| 18 | Now in , in , in the book , and this is a diagram in the book that the person who did this paper yesterday in yesterday 's class put on the board , erm Freud does n't use the term super ego , that term I think was first used by Freud a year or two later in his book The Ego which I think is nineteen twenty three . |
| 19 | Attention concentrated on the December London Fox contract , which rose by £21 a tonne to £753 . |
| 20 | This example illustrates a general point , namely that the more heavily regulated by statute a government activity is , the more likely it is to be amenable to judicial review . |
| 21 | Special arrangements allow the easterners ' exports of meat , fruit , dairy goods and vegetables to rise by 10% a year for five years . |
| 22 | But a rocky economy and the resistance of fans to ticket prices , which have risen by 10% a season in recent years , have slowed revenue growth at a time when expenses continue to soar . |
| 23 | Er and er that went up , the firm 's pay , er by sixpence a year . |
| 24 | Vehicle excise duty — the tax disc — paid by the owners of 23 million cars , was increased by £15 a year to £125 for licences taken out in Post Offices and vehicle registration offices from today . |
| 25 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Datapoint Corp says that the decline in revenue as of January 30 was down mainly to unfavourable foreign currency translations and an interruption of the French subsidiary 's operations following a fire in its leased warehouse — but there are some bulls of the shares around these days : analyst Howard Harlow of New York 's Whale Securities sees a major turnaround and a doubling in value of the shares over the next 12 months ; he sees earnings of $0.60 a share in 1993 followed by $1.20 a share in 1994 . |
| 26 | The backspace time varies slightly from machine to machine , but you can measure it exactly by test-copying a shot and comparing its length with that of the original — the difference between the two is the backspace . |
| 27 | Boniface 's perspective was shared by Bede a decade or so earlier . |
| 28 | Most of Scotland is still rising but the south-east of England is sinking by 15cm a century . |
| 29 | Pensions will increase by £1.95 a week to £56.10 for a single person and £3.10 a week to £89.80 for couples . |
| 30 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |