Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GDP would recover from two years ' contraction or stagnation to grow by 4.75 per cent in 1992-93 . |
| 2 | I tried not to give any extra weight to the explanations or justifications made by one individual rather than another . |
| 3 | At Buckhurst Hill , despite Javed 's 6 for 37 , Hadleigh & Thundersley won by 2 wickets , Mark Seaden scoring 51 . |
| 4 | Production in the industrial sector fell by 3.1 per cent , worst hit being the car industry where output fell by 23.4 per cent . |
| 5 | Strongest organic growth came on the Continent , where profits rose by 150 per cent in France and 70 per cent in West Germany . |
| 6 | For example , remedies available against one body may not be available against another ; procedures or standards applied by one quango may be legally sound but if utilized by another they may not , and so on . |
| 7 | But while Stalin lived , Lysenko derived great power by espousing the politically seductive claim that characteristics acquired by one generation — in seeds and men — could be passed on to succeeding generations . |
| 8 | This can mean that factories prevented by one inspector from discharging pollutants into the air are allowed to divert them to , say , water . |
| 9 | It says that output grew by 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 , with the number of companies up from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 in 1991 . |
| 10 | The bare facts are that Oxford won by 1¼ lengths in 17min 44sec to take the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth successive time and register their 16th win in 17 years . |
| 11 | It says that productivity rose by 5.9 per cent in the year to October . |
| 12 | Some targets and rewards set by one group of women included : |
| 13 | Cars increased by 0.96 per cent to 22.74 million , but buses and coaches fell by 1.6 per cent , heavy commercial vehicles by 9.4 per cent , and motorcycles by 6.4 per cent . |
| 14 | The results reported by Schneider and Robin indicate that aggression and tantrums decreased by 46 per cent and 54 per cent in two elementary school classrooms for the emotionally disturbed after eight weeks of training using the turtle technique . |
| 15 | To date , only 2 patients have relapsed. 1 developed an 8 mm recurrence in the conserved breast 68 months after primary treatment by wide surgical excision and radiotherapy followed by 6 months adjuvant chemotherapy . |
| 16 | The group 's profits increased by 14 per cent to £703m and turnover increased by 24 per cent to £1976m ( although exchange rate movements overstated the real increases ) . |
| 17 | Growth rates , however , could only be maintained if aid increased by 4 per cent a year in real terms . |
| 18 | This motley bunch of adventurers , undesirables and patriots had by 1921 accepted the general lead of Lord Salisbury . |
| 19 | The altarpiece , originally painted for the church of Santa Trinità , depicts the enthroned Madonna and Child surrounded by eight angels and four prophets . |
| 20 | The gap between exports and imports narrowed by 43 p.c. from the previous month to $3.4 billion . |
| 21 | brand names that consist of common words ; for example Crest , Tube Investments , and companies known by two or more names ; for example GPO , British Telecom . |
| 22 | Avril had planned to have her hair and make-up done by two fellow patients , in time for her special visitor , widower Peter Spencer , 54 . |
| 23 | The yen gained Y1.35 to trade at Y142.25 to the dollar and sterling rose by 0.57 cents to $1.6102 . |
| 24 | Total registrations at 8,384 were more than 400 up on the previous year and membership increased by 50 to 1,728 at the year end . |
| 25 | And chicks fed by two males grow better and are more likely to survive . |
| 26 | Ground , facilities and ambitions wrecked by four arson attacks , they play home games at Guisborough . |
| 27 | Then the OECD forecast that UK interest rates would be 13 per cent by the end of 1989 , which would allow the economy to grow by just over 2 per cent next year and inflation to rise by 5 ¾ per cent . |
| 28 | So it is fairly safe to assume that assistance from Western sources , official and private , will flow to the East in a crusade against the poverty and pollution caused by seventy years of ideological perversity . |
| 29 | Robert Stephenson and Co. had by 1840 supplied locomotives to Austria , Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Russia , and North America . |
| 30 | The caring trio had raised the cash at a week-end rally and concert attended by 2,000 motorcyclists . |