Example sentences of "went [adv] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last year employment in Britain went down by 873,000 . |
| 2 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 3 | The Government went down by 71 votes and after a short Cabinet on the next morning ( 22 January 1924 ) he drove to Buckingham Palace and resigned . |
| 4 | City gave another disappointing display as they made their second Cup exit of the week , when in their replay in the O'Brien Trophy game , they went by the went down by three goals to one . |
| 5 | The Cowboys went down by 35 points in week one , but Buffalo , by contrast , opened on a high with four passing touchdowns , three caught by Andre Reed . |
| 6 | Moreover , their pay has increased by 40 per cent. , whereas it went down by 25 per cent . |
| 7 | But although the away side did well in the Midlands , there was disappointment at Liverpool , where the locals went down by 31 shots . |
| 8 | NORTHERN Ireland 's junior 11 went down by 4–1 against a strong Scottish junior side . |
| 9 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 10 | They carried out this test and er I think escaped , went down by eighty five percent |
| 11 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 12 | In Northern Ireland , last year saw some 5,000 redundancies , while the number claiming dole went up by 3,500 . |
| 13 | There had been no improvement in productivity , retail prices went up by 1.5 per cent ( although the real level of inflation was widely thought to be at least double that ) , and wages remained static in real terms . |
| 14 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 15 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 16 | The price of petrol was increased by 47 per cent , domestic butane gas by 60 per cent and electricity by 71 per cent , and telephone and postal rates went up by 58 per cent and 81 per cent respectively . |
| 17 | Seasonal food prices went up by 2.1 per cent in February , and average prices of clothing and footwear rose by 1.8 per cent , after falling 4.6 per cent in January . |
| 18 | Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one per cent . |
| 19 | There was a dramatic fall in light industrial output , while savings went up by 133,400 million yuan , the largest rise ever . |
| 20 | The main tax rates remained unchanged , while most tax allowances and excise duties were increased in line with inflation ( 7.7 per cent over the 12 months to December 1989 ) , although some duties went up by 10 per cent . |
| 21 | In the past decade demand for food rose by just 0.5 per cent each year while production went up by 1.8 per cent each year |
| 22 | President Clinton 's ratings went up by nine percent . |
| 23 | Everywhere in the region suffered : Thames Valley went up by 212 per cent and even rural Wiltshire rose by 205 per cent . |
| 24 | Profits went up by ten per cent last month and your stepfather got the credit . |
| 25 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 26 | Civilian workers employed by the police went up by 12 per cent between 1979 and 1988 ( 34,630 to 41,800 ) . |
| 27 | During the 1950s the population of the South-East went up by 1.13 million , with a net migration gain of 438,000 . |
| 28 | Nationwide , unemployment figures went up by 41,000 , making the total 2,908,900 million . |
| 29 | Sea level went up by 24 metres in less than 1,000 years , a rate of more than 24mm per year . |
| 30 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |