Example sentences of "increase of [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares in London 's water provider fell 7p to 485p in a rising stock market after the company announced a profits increase of just 5% to £124m to end-September . |
| 2 | IN THE first half of 1990 the Food & Agriculture Division continued to make progress and earned profits of £14.9m , an increase of nearly 20% on our 1989 half . |
| 3 | Even after visits made in the extra two hours are excluded there has still been an increase of nearly 39% in night visits from 1989 to 1992 , and the number of night visits has more than doubled in the 10 years since 1982 . |
| 4 | There were 23,945 candidates involved in HNC/Ds , an increase of almost 15% on the previous session 's figures . |
| 5 | RESIDENTS of Middlesbrough are expected to face a poll tax increase of almost £45 from April 1 . |
| 6 | Overall , the modifications to the management of the system resulted in an increase of about 25% of the total agricultural output , with a change in emphasis towards fish production and export ( which makes economic sense because of the high value of fish in the marketplace ) . |
| 7 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |