Example sentences of "by more than a quarter " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson , blamed by many for causing the housing slump , has been forced to slash the price of his luxury home by more than a quarter . |
| 2 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 3 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jobs at BR 's Eastern Region headquarters in York would be cut by more than a quarter as work was contracted out and staffing levels cut back together with train services . |
| 6 | Over the past twenty years , the number who look at papers has fallen by more than a quarter . |