Example sentences of "rise [prep] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ F ] rom the early 1960s the bulldozers began to bite into the inner cities : slum clearance in Britain rose from less than 35,000 houses a year in 1955 to a steady 70,000 a year from 1960 . |
| 2 | Custom and excise revenue already formed 57 per cent of total tax income by 1750 and rose to more than 70 per cent before Addington 's direct tax gathering of 1803 – 15 reduced it to 60 per cent . |
| 3 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 4 | Protector Somerset held the number of privy councillors around twenty , but under the Duke of Northumberland it rose to more than thirty . |
| 5 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |
| 6 | The death toll from an army offensive launched on Saturday rose to more than 60 as the federal forces pounded targets from the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik to the besieged Danube river town of Vukovar . |
| 7 | Consequently , the number of directly employed staff rose to more than 7600 by 1980 but is now down to about 7000 as the airline industry , in common with many other industries , feels the effect of the recession . |
| 8 | Production of investment goods trebled , while consumption ( public and private ) rose by less than 50 per cent . |
| 9 | Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ? |
| 10 | An analysis of major countries from 1974–1990 including France , Germany , UK , USA and Australia , showed that advertising expenditure rose by more than 70 per cent over the period ( weighted average ) but that alcohol consumption per capita declined . |
| 11 | SALES of new cars rose by more than eight per cent last month . |
| 12 | SALES of new cars rose by more than eight per cent last month . |
| 13 | After a boom period in the 1950s and 1960s , when real wages grew by more than a quarter between 1950 and 1965 , and when earnings rose by more than 40 per cent , the later 1960s ushered in years of intermittent depression . |
| 14 | Japan 's business failures rose by 66 per cent in 1991 and bad debts rose by more than 300 per cent , Tokyo Commerce and Industry Research reported . |
| 15 | For example , from the end of 1982 to the end of 1986 the net inflow was less than 1,000 billion dinars , but the value of the stock of deposits rose by more than 4,000 billion dinars ( EP , 14 March 1988 ) . |
| 16 | In the past 10 years , the average number of kidney transplants in Japan has risen from less than one a week to about one every day . |
| 17 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
| 18 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
| 19 | This village , which is situated along the trail from Lukla to Everest Base Camp , has undergone tremendous changes as the number of tourists to Nepal has risen from less than 10 000 per year in 1960 to almost 250 000 in 1988 ; there are also plans to increase that number to c. 1 million by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | Although the report showed that the percentage of couples in developing countries using birth control had risen from less than 10 per cent in the 1960s to 51 per cent in 1991 , it stressed that its target of lowering global fertility from 3.8 to 3.3 births per woman required the number of couples using contraception in the developing world to rise from 381 million in 1990 to 567 million by 2000 . |
| 21 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 22 | But in the nature of averages the price on some other island(s) must have risen by less than 5 per cent . |
| 23 | while the retail prices index has risen by less than 4 per cent ? |
| 24 | Despite the recession in the housing market , sales of Ideal Home have risen by more than 30,000 copies per month during the year . |
| 25 | According to the buyers ' guide produced by estate agents Savills , who specialise in such properties , the price of prime properties in Yorkshire has risen by more than 130 per cent over the last three years . |
| 26 | Today it has risen by more than twenty years , to 72 for men and 77 for women , and it is still rising . |
| 27 | Since 1985 enquiries about cosmetic surgery in Britain have risen by more than 800 per cent . |
| 28 | Since early March , however , the Nikkei share average has risen by more than 3,600 points , to 20,533 on May 13th . |
| 29 | The first attempt was in winter , precisely at that dark , depressing period when the sun can barely be bothered rising for more than 20 minutes before it packs in and hands over to nightfall . |
| 30 | More than 11 million people are expected through the doors at the Paris site in year one ( 1992 ) , rising to more than 16 million by its peak . |