Example sentences of "by [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then move one of the pencils upwards on the table , by about an inch or so , and ask again about the relative length of the pencils . |
| 2 | The brewery is reducing wholesale prices of Morrells Bitter and lager by about one pence a pint . |
| 3 | West Germany 's willingness in the early Seventies in effect to bribe East Berlin — by about DM4bn ( £1.32bn ) a year — to treat its citizens more decently has cemented the division . |
| 4 | It is just a matter of lightly pushing the point of the hook into the skin of the boilie by about one eighth of an inch . |
| 5 | Indeed , by about the middle of the morning we feel surprisingly alert — we might even not bother with sleep after all — and we appear to have overcome the effects of a lost night ‘ s sleep . |
| 6 | That should nudge Whitbread 's share of the British beer market up by about one per cent to about 14 per cent . |
| 7 | Compare the unit prices of Hong Kong 's export goods with wholesale prices in America , he says , and you will find that both have risen since 1983 by about 3.5% a year . |
| 8 | There is probably no such thing as a typical death-bed in any century ; but it is not difficult to take two representative scenarios , separated from one another by about one hundred years . |
| 9 | The Roman empire saw the increasing debasement of its staple silver coin : from almost pure silver in the early first century AD it sank to only 50 per cent fine by about AD200 and to only about 1–2 per cent by AD270 . |
| 10 | In this case , between 1960 and 1975 , the dominant and bureaucratic-technical classes increased their share of national income by about 1 per cent , at the expense of the informal sector , which experienced a decrease of 1.3 per cent . |
| 11 | Pregnant women are generally advised to reduce their MHR by about 20–25 per cent — the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists cautiously recommends that pregnant women do n't exercise above 140bpm — so the Pacer could help you run sensibly during pregnancy . |
| 12 | John took up with puppets by about the age of twelve . |
| 13 | As a result , by about the year 400 Christmas Day had become a significant date in the Christian Year : 25 December was chosen so as to exorcize the great pagan festival of the solar solstice . |
| 14 | It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour . |
| 15 | The isotope shift and hyperfine splitting might alter these energy transitions by about one part in a million . |
| 16 | The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands . |
| 17 | By about the end of the 18th century they began to be replaced by the brick and pantiles which form the pattern of the present village . |
| 18 | Push the fabric squares firmly into the ring so the centre is embedded in the foam by about 1 cm and the fabric corners stand up |
| 19 | It did n't work , and by about the third instalment the outcry was such that we abandoned it . |
| 20 | By about l3.30 on 18 March , the guns of the main Turkish batteries had almost all been put out of action by long-range bombardment by Allied ships . |
| 21 | At the second and subsequent prunings , a widely advocated rule of thumb guide is to reduce the stem length by about a half . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , the model results suggest that under current conditions heterogeneous processes involving PSCs reduce total ozone in the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere by about 40DU and give rise to a local loss of over 20% . |
| 23 | During sunlit hours , an ozone loss of about 1.6 parts per 10 9 by volume ( p.p.b.v. ) occurs between mid morning and late afternoon , followed by a replenishment to a similar starting concentration by about midnight . |
| 24 | A simulated conversion of N 2 O 5 to HNO 3 on background aerosols , however , shows column nitric acid to increase between days 55 and 75 in autumn by about 3.0x10 15 molecule cm -2 ( ref. 9 ) . |
| 25 | The ocean cooled by about one degree down to depths of three thousand metres , an enormous amount of heat was extracted from the ocean . |
| 26 | ‘ … yes , by about one second in every 100 million years you spent up there . ’ |
| 27 | Finnerty and Park concluded that futures prices lead the spot market by about one minute , although the size of this effect is small . |
| 28 | Influenza B impaired performance of the simple reaction time task by about 20–40% , which is comparable to the 5–10% deterioration seen with alcohol consumption or work at night . |
| 29 | The gene that causes CF is carried ( without causing the disorder itself ) by about one in 20 of the white population , but it 's very rate in black and other ethnic groups . |
| 30 | And can you see by about now the muscles are beginning to feel . |