Example sentences of "had increased [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1985 , Leon Brittan , then Home Secretary , was booed despite his figures saying that prison officer ranks had increased since 1979 by one-fifth , and that the budget for the Prison Service had risen 85 per cent . |
| 2 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 3 | A population of 5,000 in 1851 had increased to 43,000 by the end of the century , and lines from Chester , Manchester , Liverpool and Birmingham converged on this important junction . |
| 4 | HTFS began with seven members and , by the end of its first year , membership had increased to 20 including major companies such as Babcock Energy , BOC Process Plants , Foster Wheeler Energy , ICI , John Brown and M W Kellogg , all of which are still members today . |
| 5 | ( In Iran judicial executions had increased in 1989 to at least 1,000 as a result of a new law imposing mandatory death sentences for possession of drugs . ) |
| 6 | Turkish-Soviet trade had increased in 1990 to US$1,800 million . |
| 7 | I learned from local hoteliers the staggering statistics that in less than a decade , the number of hotel rooms nearby had increased from 70 to 800 . |
| 8 | Between 1851 and 1861 , for example , in 821 rural parishes covered by the investigation the population had increased from 305567 to 322064 , while the number of houses had fallen from 69225 to 66109 . |
| 9 | The number of self-employed had increased from two to three million in the past decade . |
| 10 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 11 | During his Headmastership of twenty-five years , the number of boys had increased from 90 to over 300 . |
| 12 | Increasing numbers of women went to cheap matinees at the cinema during the inter-war years , where 70 per cent of the weekly audiences in London comprised women and girls , and by 1939 the number of wirelesses had increased from 200,000 in 1923 to over 8.5 million . |
| 13 | This patient also had a serum gastrin concentration that had increased from 710 to 1550 pmol/l . |
| 14 | It was feared that landlords and rich peasants had en entered the Party erm but wh which had increased from tens of thousands to two point seven million in eleven years . |
| 15 | By the beginning of 1991 the number of seats held by the CIP had increased from 12 to 14 — one member of the DP having defected to the CIP , and the sole independent member having joined the CIP — thereby giving the party , in alliance with the DTP , the two-thirds majority required to enact constitutional changes . |
| 16 | By 1986 employment in the financial service industries had increased by one-fifth since 1979 , and income by one-third , in contrast to the manufacturing and construction industries where employment was down by one-quarter , whilst wages increased only one-seventh . |
| 17 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 18 | By 1908 Wilson noted that the 1,000 or so Chinese seamen shipped at United Kingdom ports in 1905 had increased by 1907 to 5,000 and a deputation of 40 seamen was organised to wait upon Winston Churchill , then President of the Board of Trade . |