Example sentences of "rise by [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | But book and magazine sales at Smiths rose by nearly six per cent . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | He believed a truer picture of the company 's performance was given by earnings figures calculated on a current-cost basis , which rose by just 8 per cent to £3.1 billion on turnover which fell by more than £1 billion to £73 billion . |
| 6 | Forte announced a group pre-tax profit fall of 62 per cent from £190 million to £73 million on turnover which rose by just one per cent to £2.66 billion . |
| 7 | In the past decade demand for food rose by just 0.5 per cent each year while production went up by 1.8 per cent each year |
| 8 | But the bill for nurses ' and midwives ' pay rose by just 60 PER CENT in the same period . |
| 9 | Exports in convertible currencies — not including trade with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( COMECON ) — rose by approximately 4 per cent , with a resulting trade deficit of $763,000,000 in 1989 , compared with $350,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 10 | Foreign investment in 1989 rose by almost 76 per cent to 8,600 million ringgits , and it was expected that the upward trend would be maintained for 1990 . |
| 11 | The main engines of growth were capital spending ( under the June Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) agreement [ see below ; p. 36892 ] the Japanese government committed itself to spend 430,000,000 million yen ( US$3,200,000 million ) on public works over the next 10 years ) and domestic consumption ( domestic demand rose by almost 6 per cent during the year ) . |
| 12 | Between 1979-80 and 1990-91 , the total of new studentships awarded by research councils rose by almost 28 per cent . |
| 13 | For 1990 as a whole , GNP rose by around 0.9 per cent , compared with 2.5 per cent in 1989 . |
| 14 | New house prices rose by around 50 per cent in the United Kingdom between early 1972 and early 1973 . |
| 15 | Since manufacturing productivity rose by only 2.9 per cent a year between 1962 and 1964 , this implied some combination of higher inflation and lower profitability . |
| 16 | The year saw an increase of 15 per cent in such applications , while the fund rose by only 4 per cent . |
| 17 | So , in this example , although money national income rose by 100 per cent , real output per capita rose by only 25 per cent . |
| 18 | British Airways chief Lord King ‘ must have been delighted with his 64 per cent pay rise as BA 's profits rose by only 19 per cent , ’ says the report . |
| 19 | The number of people classified as in civilian employment rose by only 29 per cent between 1952 and 1973 . |
| 20 | If he talks about pensioners , he should let the facts speak for themselves : under the previous Labour Government , the real average income of pensioners rose by only 3 per cent . |
| 21 | But as a share of GDP , workers ' savings rose by only 3 per cent while investment leaped up by 13 per cent . |
| 22 | The semi-annual World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , published in May 1990 , indicated that the rate of expansion of the world economy in 1990 , was likely to be the lowest since 1982 , but suggested that it would not be as severe as 1982 when world output rose by only 0.5 per cent . |
| 23 | In the last 30 years the number of over-60s has risen by almost 50 per cent in the EC , from 46.5 million to 68.6 million , according to the survey by the EC 's statistical office . |
| 24 | Despite the successive sterling crises , deflationary fiscal packages and wage restraint , real personal disposable income per head had risen by around 12 per cent from 1964 to 1970 . |
| 25 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 26 | The group maintains that average in-patient charges have risen by only 8 per cent . |
| 27 | Details of a report by the Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche ( WIIW — the Vienna Institute for International Comparative Economics ) , published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 19 , 1990 , showed that industrial production in member states of COMECON had risen by only 1.2 per cent in 1989 — the lowest ever recorded . |
| 28 | US officials said that imports from China had increased by 42 per cent in the first six months while US exports to China had risen by only 18.4 per cent , and the US trade deficit with China was expected to rise to US$15 billion . |
| 29 | In the last three years , for example , property prices have risen by 68.5 per cent , while the FT All Share Index has risen by only 52.1 per cent . |
| 30 | With prices rising by only 4.8 per cent in each year , this implied considerable real wage increases and a sharp fall in profitability . |