Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [adv] [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the ages of 25 and 29 , the annual remarriage rates per 1,000 divorced men was 136 in 1989 , down by over 70 per cent from 1971 figure of 503 . |
| 2 | For women , the number was down by over 60 per cent to 142 from 364 . |
| 3 | The number of populars ( excluding the Daily Worker/Morning Star , which fitted easily into neither category ) was six in each year , but total circulation was down by nearly 10 per cent . |
| 4 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 5 | THE London stock market is down by about 8 per cent from this year 's peak . |
| 6 | NORTH WEST ‘ Properties costing over £100,000 have come down by about 20 per cent , semis by about ten per cent and terraces by about five per cent , ’ says Clive Watkin of the Clive Watkin Partnership on the Wirral , Merseyside . |
| 7 | Figures for juvenile crime in England and Wales have in fact fallen dramatically in the past ten years , with convictions and cautions for boys aged 10-16 down by almost 50 per cent since 1981 and similarly for girls between 10 and 13 . |
| 8 | Their overall support was down by almost 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Cleary secured 34 per cent of the first preference vote , compared with 29 per cent for the ALP ( down by almost 20 per cent compared with 1990 ) and 27 per cent for the Liberals ( down by 6 per cent ) . |
| 10 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 11 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 12 | In Jamaica the cost of a market-basket of staple foods shot up by nearly 100 per cent between 1983 and 1986 . |
| 13 | Incidents requiring attendance by police officers are up by nearly 80 per cent . |
| 14 | In the financial period from February 1 to the end of June fares are up by over 30 per cent on the same period in 1991 . |
| 15 | since 1984 , and 999 calls are up by over 20 per cent . |
| 16 | And freight traffic exports jumped by 13 per cent to 4,000 tonnes and imports were up by over 20 per cent , giving an overall freight increase for the month of 17 per cent . |
| 17 | Up by over 50 per cent since 1979 . |
| 18 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 19 | In Germany , while profits in industry have increased by 206 per cent since 1980 , wages have gone up by only 45 per cent . |
| 20 | Whereas , according to the United States Department of Agriculture , world production rose by 4.5 per cent , consumption , on estimates by the International Monetary Fund , went up by only 2.6 per cent . |