Example sentences of "have [vb pp] by [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since November commercial and industrial loans at America 's money-centre banks have fallen by about $6 billion . |
| 2 | Prices have fallen by about 20 per cent in Northern France , less in the South . |
| 3 | Moreover , the areas where prices have fallen furthest , in the south of the country , are those where the market is weakest — in London and the south east house prices have fallen by over 9% in the last 12 months . |
| 4 | Prices in some areas have dropped by between 10 and 20 per cent this year and the number of sales has been half last year 's . |
| 5 | How he can use that phrase when living standards for a married man on average earnings with two children have risen by about 35 per cent . |
| 6 | Sea levels around Venice have risen by about 23 cm in 50 years . |
| 7 | Average temperatures in the region have risen by about one degree celsius in the last 30 years . |
| 8 | It seems most likely then , that the increasing police budgets ( up from £3.35 billion in 1988/9 to £4.1 billion in 1989/90 ) , which have risen by over 50 per cent in real terms since 1979 , will be used to maintain , defend , and expand on this hegemonic style . |
| 9 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 10 | Annual emissions from man-made sources have increased by between three and four times since 1950 . |
| 11 | hip replacements have increased by over 50 per cent |
| 12 | In schools , the most notable growth has been in the use of 81200 Work Experience 1 — enrolments for this module have increased by over 200% ; other substantial increases were for the Communications and Mathematics modules . |
| 13 | Prices have remained relatively stable and have increased by about 10 per cent a year , according to John Morton Morris of Hazlitt Gooden and Fox . |
| 14 | ( 1984 ) highlight that northern hemisphere sea-surface temperatures have increased by about 0.8 °C since 1900 . |
| 15 | Their lending rates have not fallen in line with their funding costs ; banks ' margins have widened by about two percentage points since early 1991 . |
| 16 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 17 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 18 | An RSPB survey shows the populations of lapwing and snipe have declined by over half , curlew by a third while ouzel numbers have crashed by 70% to just 18 pairs . |
| 19 | The organization warns that continuing destruction of wildlife areas has put 40 farmland bird species under threat , including the barn owl ( whose numbers have declined by over 50 per cent in Britain since the 1930s ) . |
| 20 | The attendance figures for readers using the George IV Bridge Reading Room during the day ( 53,644 ) and in the evening ( 29,476 ) have declined by about 9% from last year . |
| 21 | Is he aware that this year their numbers have declined by about 9,000 ? |