Example sentences of "increase [prep] [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increase of over 100 per cent in the price of maize meal on June 19 , as part of an economic recovery programme [ see pp. 37142-43 ; 37559 ] , provoked widespread discontent which culminated in violence after a demonstration by some 2,000 students in Lusaka on June 25 . |
| 2 | As compared with regional showings in the GDR general election on March 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37300-03 ] , the CDU share of the vote overall went up , due to an increase of over 10 per cent in support in Saxony ( where support for the DSU , however , dropped by a corresponding amount ) . |
| 3 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 4 | The Metropolitan Police are expected to cost £1,082.391 million in 1989/90 — an increase of over 50 per cent in real terms since 1977/8 . |
| 5 | For example , an increase of approximately 100 per cent in vehicle mileage by 2025 is widely acknowledged as likely to be responsible for huge increases in energy consumption and pollution , yet the Department of Transport " is n't interested in energy efficiency " . |
| 6 | This resulted in the issue of approximately 4.2 million new ordinary shares in our company , representing an increase of approximately 2.3 per cent in its issued share capital . |
| 7 | Drink sales averaged £180,000 per unit , showing an increase of approximately 10 per cent over the period . |
| 8 | I have already told the House that the export performance of United Kingdom industry has been extremely good , with an increase of nearly 25 per cent . |
| 9 | Wang also announced an increase of nearly 12 per cent in military spending for 1991 , the second increase in two years , saying that the extra money was needed for the modernization of weapons and equipment . |
| 10 | ; whereas from the end of the first half of 1979 to the third quarter of 1991 , there has been an increase of nearly 6 per cent . |
| 11 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 12 | The aspirin and paracetamol market was worth £148 million — a healthy increase of almost 10 per cent on 1990 , said the market research group Datamonitor . |
| 13 | Andrew Hugh Smith , ISE chairman , said : ‘ Turnover in UK equities has seen an increase of almost 50 per cent over the past year , alleviating some of the problems caused by the very low volumes after the market crash . |
| 14 | The fitting of 7.50 x 16 tyres in place of 600 x 16 gives an increase of about 11 per cent to the gearing . |
| 15 | As for resources , the hon. Lady will know that we spent about £3 billion on the health service in Scotland last year , which is more than £600 per head for every man , woman and child in the country and represents an increase of about 38 per cent . |
| 16 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 17 | The 1.6 per cent increase in CO2 is set against an increase of only 1 per cent in gross domestic product over the year , indicating that the economy became more polluting per unit of wealth created . |
| 18 | The present publishers , John Horbury & Associates , had quoted with an increase of only five per cent and they would be retained due to their reliability and flexibility . |
| 19 | The rise in wheat consumption slowed markedly since the early 1980s from an increase of 3.5 per cent a year to an average increase of only 2.4 per cent a year . |
| 20 | At the end of August , with inflation , exacerbated by the Gulf crisis , running at an annual rate of 22.7 per cent , the government had announced a wage increase of only 7.1 per cent for the final quarter of the year under the automatic wage indexation system , due to be abolished in 1991 . |
| 21 | The draft budget for 1993 , presented to the Cortes on Sept. 29 and described by Economy and Finance Minister Carlos Solchaga Catalán as the most restrictive budget in 20 years , allowed for a central government spending increase of only 3.7 per cent in real terms ( 2.1 per cent of this allocated to debt servicing ) , with the budget deficit due to fall from 2.6 to 2.3 per cent of GDP ( Pta1,421,100 million — approximately US$13,930 million ) . |
| 22 | However , the funding in real terms of education projected for 1990 –91 , means an increase of only 3.2 per cent . |
| 23 | increase in real terms in teachers ' pay and that there was an increase of only 6 per cent . |
| 24 | Export growth over the same period has shown an increase of only 36 per cent which , although better than the world average growth of 28 per cent , is clearly not sufficient to cover the large increase in import demand . |
| 25 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 26 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 27 | The five-year programme was budgeted to cost 22,750,000 million yen , at an average annual increase of around 3 per cent . |