Example sentences of "a increase [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monthly bill for a repayment loan of £100,000 would cost £1,117.73 , an increase of more than 8 per cent after tax relief . |
| 2 | Workers earning £115 a week or more will receive just over £3 extra in their weekly pay packets , while salaried staff will see an increase of more than £13 a month . |
| 3 | Stalin and Molotov suddenly at a meeting of the Council of Commissars … proposed that the control figures of the plan be increased twofold … in June 1930 , Stalin suddenly announced sharp increases in the goals — for pig iron , from 10 million to 17 million tons by the last year of the plan ; for tractors , from 55,000 to 170,000 ; for other agricultural machinery and trucks , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 4 | In fact , in 1932–33 , without all the goals of the FFYP having been achieved , 6.7 million workers and employees were working in Soviet factories , an increase of more than 110% over that of 1928 , and of 65% over the planned number of workers ! |
| 5 | This will push his weekly income to around £3,000 — an increase of more than £2,000 . |
| 6 | New figures show that in the 20 constituencies represented by the Cabinet , nearly 69,000 people are on the dole — an increase of more than 38,000 in two years . |
| 7 | For example , the solar forcing increases by about 2.5Wm -2 from 1795 to 1834 , an increase of more than 1% in irradiance . |
| 8 | The Home Office has reportedly seen an increase of more than 40 per cent in the number of young people sentenced to young offender institutions . |
| 9 | For example , in the twelve years between 1969 and 1981 , the number of students on full-time and sandwich courses in Welsh establishments rose from 12,390 to 25,377 , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman knows only too well that in his autumn statement my right hon. Friend the Chancellor was able to announce a £1.4 billion boost to the railways and London Transport and an increase of more than 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Are not the truly appalling unemployment figures announced today — an increase of more than 53,000 , taking the unemployment total to more than 2,600,000 , even leaving out the thousands of job losses announced during the present month — ample proof that the Government 's incompetent economic policies are certainly not working , but are causing severe hurt ? |
| 12 | The same survey showed an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 13 | Taken together , the progress that we have made in education and training has led to an increase of more than two thirds in the proportion of 16 to 18-year-olds receiving full-time education or training since 1980 . |
| 14 | When compounded , that amounted to an increase of more than 30 per cent . |
| 15 | I have increased resources for local authority non-housing capital expenditure to £620 million next year — an increase of more than 18 per cent . |
| 16 | I intend to launch Scottish Natural Heritage , which will combine and enhance the functions of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland , with a starting budget of £34.6 million , an increase of more than 28 per cent . |
| 17 | in real terms under the last Labour Government , whereas in the past 12 years there has been an increase of more than 19 per cent . |
| 18 | At the end of 1990 , after controversy over the census , the Census Bureau claimed that the total population of the USA was 249,632,692 — an increase of more than 23,000,000 ( 10.2 per cent ) over the 1980 figure of 226,545,805 . |
| 19 | The figure represented an increase of more than 70 per cent over the total amount of aid granted during the previous five years . |
| 20 | The move severely affected business confidence and fuelled fears of hyperinflation , prompting an increase of more than 20 per cent in the domestic price of gold and the black-market value of the US dollar . |
| 21 | That 's an increase of more than two million pounds on the previous year and a rise of seventeen per cent . |
| 22 | Now he can expect to make more than 29 000 — even with inflation , an increase of more than 40 per cent . |
| 23 | The Dundee Sunday Boys ' League , which has 130 teams ranging in age from nine to 15-year-olds playing in seven leagues , faces an increase of more than 300 per cent , which an official yesterday forecast would cause 80 per cent of the teams to fold . |
| 24 | Land freight transport services contributed £353m in 1991 , an increase of more than £30m on 1990 . |
| 25 | Only time will tell whether the requirement that ‘ other proceedings ’ must be brought will lead to an increase in more or less spurious statute-based complaints , for instance in respect of unfair dismissal . |