Example sentences of "[vb past] by over [num] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The package was less comprehensive than had been expected , however , for observers agreed that the options available to Lee were restricted by sharply rising inflation ( consumer prices rose by over 3 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 ) which precluded any general reduction in interest rates . |
| 2 | In the event , absenteeism in the body plant actually rose by over 20 per cent over the seven-year period spanning the installation of the line-out system , though this was a smaller rise than in the press and the paint plants adjacent to the body shop . |
| 3 | The contrast is even more marked when one examines the exports in detail ; those by denizens fell by only 2 per cent , those by Hansard merchants actually rose by over 6 per cent , while those by other aliens fell by over 77 per cent . |
| 4 | Using the same analysis as Government statisticians , the figures show that over the period 1979 to 1988 , real disposable incomes rose by over 30 per cent . |
| 5 | The number of exceedances of the eight-hour air quality standard decreased by over 80 per cent during this same period but , even so , 41 areas failed to meet the air quality standard in 1988–9 . |
| 6 | The US economy grew by over 2 per cent last year , with growth in the final quarter revised up to an annual rate of 4.75 per cent . |
| 7 | The contrast is even more marked when one examines the exports in detail ; those by denizens fell by only 2 per cent , those by Hansard merchants actually rose by over 6 per cent , while those by other aliens fell by over 77 per cent . |
| 8 | Between 1981 and 1986 , real average personal disposable incomes fell by over 17 per cent . |
| 9 | Industrial output fell by over 11 per cent in the course of the 1979 — 83 Parliament , a performance worse than in other western states which also suffered from the recession . |
| 10 | Turnover fell by over 60 per cent in the body plant in the same period , though it should be noted that unemployment was rising in Sweden and therefore turnover rates in SAAB as a whole were falling , though less fast than in the body shop . |
| 11 | Over a ten year period , drink related road traffic deaths fell by over 60 per cent in the UK and by a similar percentage in Germany . |
| 12 | After the previous year saw a fall in the number of cases involving disputes with members of the Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation handled by the Investment Ombudsman , the number increased by over 50 per cent in 1992/3 according to his annual report . |
| 13 | The number of pure holiday visitors from the Republic increased by over 50 per cent . |
| 14 | One calculation , for example , showed that while the occupied population increased by 35 per cent between 1911 and 1966 , the real value ( at constant factor price ) of the national income increased by over 150 per cent ( Bacon et al. |
| 15 | During the decade 1831–41 , the number of those living in industrial towns increased by over 40 per cent , and the population of England was , for the first time , dominantly urban . |
| 16 | The firearms death rate among teenagers increased by over 40 per cent between 1984 and 1988 . |
| 17 | On a geographical basis , merchandise trade within the West Pacific region increased by over 30 per cent in 1988 , that between North America and the West Pacific by over 20 per cent , that between Western Europe and the West Pacific and within North America each by about 15-16 per cent , transatlantic trade and trade within Western Europe each by about 14-15 per cent , and other trade flows by about 7 per cent . |
| 18 | The numbers of new British cars fitted with catalytic converters increased by over 1,000 per cent in 1990 , accounting for 5.4 per cent of the two million cars sold last year , according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |