Example sentences of "[verb] by nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Models are often photographed surrounded by nearly naked Masai warriors . ) |
| 2 | Exports , at Z$1.5 billion , would fall by nearly a third . |
| 3 | From 1982 to 1989 the debts of non-financial firms in America rose by nearly 12% a year , way ahead of the 8.3% average annual growth for the previous three decades . |
| 4 | THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars . |
| 5 | But book and magazine sales at Smiths rose by nearly six per cent . |
| 6 | Manufacturing output rose by nearly one fifth between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 7 | Russell estimated the population of England at just over 21 million in 1377 , and suggested that it rose by nearly a million between then and 1545 . |
| 8 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |
| 9 | Unemployment in Scotland rose by nearly 9,000 to 260,757 , but still remains marginally below the UK average . |
| 10 | For the ACCs as a whole real take-home pay rose by nearly 1 per cent per year faster in the early 1970s than in the 1960s , despite the slowdown in productivity growth ( table 11.9 ) . |
| 11 | Even though the current account was back in surplus in 1974 , it was not nearly enough to cover the outflow of capital , and the result was that dollar liabilities rose by nearly $9 billion . |
| 12 | Between 1966 and 1975 , real earnings per employee rose by nearly 90 per cent in RENFE , although they were starting from a very low base in absolute terms ( Ferner and Fina 1988 ) . |
| 13 | The proportions of convictions varied by nearly the same degree . |
| 14 | But after four weeks of mass meditation , the rate apparently dropped by nearly a third . |
| 15 | You see your canteen takings have dropped by nearly twenty percent over the last two months . |
| 16 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 17 | Defence spending was set to increase by nearly 6 per cent to Rs76,000 million . |
| 18 | In an elegant and scholarly catalogue entry , Christie 's included a reproduction of the relevant pages from the catalogue of the Aumont sale which lasted nine days and was preceded by nearly a month 's viewing . |
| 19 | Well first of all I must distance myself from the image that is presented by nearly all introductory textbooks of cultural anthropology . |
| 20 | New car sales on credit finance slumped by nearly 20 per cent in 1991 compared with 1990 , according to HPI , the vehicle information agency . |
| 21 | Of the 45 Smallholder deputies 33 ( led by Gyula Pasztor ) were expelled from the party , prompting them to call a mini-congress on Feb. 22 in Budapest , attended by nearly 4,000 supporters who reaffirmed their support for the Antall government . |
| 22 | By 1870 , 1,500 kilometres of pipes served the whole of Paris and its inner suburbs and the city was illuminated by nearly 40,000 gas lamps , which in most of the central area were not only efficient but ornamental . |
| 23 | Given IMF projections that the world economy will grow by nearly 3 per cent in 1993 , lower interest rates , and the potential for a GATT talks deal , the bulletin believes Scottish exports should experience a surge this year . |
| 24 | Large passenger liners are being built by nearly every maritime nation , and some of these ships are for British owners . |
| 25 | Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ? |
| 26 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 27 | The work she does will be taken for granted by nearly everyone , except the relative she is caring for , and there will be no prospect of promotion either , unless it be from housekeeper to nurse . |
| 28 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 29 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 30 | Erm , let me just see in the report if you look at the nineteen eighties erm yes , between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine , the volume of agricultural trade , alright , grew by twenty six percent , alright , now that was a third of the growth of manufactures , alright , manufactures were growing by nearly ninety percent over that period , alright . |