Example sentences of "were [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lengths of rivers classified as " grossly polluted " were down by 56 per cent . |
| 2 | Supplies from Russia via Georgia were down by one-third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption as a result of fighting in the area . |
| 3 | Yes , they were down by six thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds . |
| 4 | Figures from the Graduate Teacher Training Registry show that applications for places on teacher training courses for physics are , in 1989 , down by 25 per cent on 1988 , while the 1988 figures were down by 17 per cent on 1987 ( Times Educational Supplement 4 April 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Almost as many movies were made here , but ‘ shooting days ’ were down by half ; independents on small budgets ca n't afford to waste time . |
| 6 | According to industry estimates , sales of nablabs last year were down by 25 per cent overall on the previous 12 months . |
| 7 | The Gulf crisis caused revenues from tourism to fall by 65 per cent ( official estimate ) by December and dues from the Suez canal were down by 25 per cent compared with 1989 . |
| 8 | Operating costs in 1992 were down by some £29 million ( 22% ) compared to 1990 , partly achieved by the continuing redundancy programme which cost the company £1.7 million to implement last year . |
| 9 | However , international sanctions meant that foreign loan agreements were down by 51 per cent to $4,800 million . |
| 10 | Industry estimates are that sales were down by 12 p.c. on the year at about 140,000 . |
| 11 | Both missed and the underdogs were through by one hole . |
| 12 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 13 | A WH Smith survey of 600 newsagents across the country showed their sales of Thursday 's paper were up by 17 per cent . |
| 14 | Sales were up by nineteen percent and there 's also firm evidence in these results of margin improvements which reflect , for the first time , the full benefit of our cost cutting measures taken over the last three years . |
| 15 | AIDS cases reported by end-1991 were up by 42 per cent to 446,681 , but were estimated by WHO as actually exceeding 1,500,000 . |
| 16 | Visitors figures for the Lady Lever Art Gallery were up by 20,000 . |
| 17 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 18 | Catastrophe losses during the period were up by two thirds from $12.5m to almost $21.0m . |
| 19 | Even at White Castle and Alton Towers , both of which recorded record attendances last year , they were up by fourteen percent and sixteen percent respectively . |
| 20 | Applications for shop , car and home loans were up by 5.5 per cent , suggesting that worries about the recession are beginning to ease . |
| 21 | Marylebone Road was up by eight point two percent , Rock Circus attendances were up by twenty eight percent and Chessington twenty one percent . |
| 22 | The club 's accounts were up by 2.2 million pounds on the previous year . |
| 23 | In the food and agriculture , and engineering and metals sectors , however , business failures were up by 30 per cent and 26 per cent , respectively , over the second quarter levels . |
| 24 | Overall vehicle numbers in 1991 were up by 0.6 per cent , compared to 2.6 per cent in 1990 . |
| 25 | Britain 's non-oil exports to France were up by 12 per cent last December , compared to the same month the year before . |