Example sentences of "by almost [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign investment in 1989 rose by almost 76 per cent to 8,600 million ringgits , and it was expected that the upward trend would be maintained for 1990 . |
| 2 | While sales of petrol engined cars dropped by almost 32 per cent , sales of diesels rose by nine per cent . |
| 3 | On the following day oil supplies to the rest of Lithuania were cut off , and natural gas supplies were reduced by almost 85 per cent . |
| 4 | The task of setting the budget had been passed on Dec. 27 by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies to the Federation Council , after the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on Dec. 26 had thrown the budget-setting exercise into crisis by voting to cut its contribution to the union budget by almost 85 per cent , to 23,400 million roubles ( US$1.00=Rbs0.5556 as at Dec. 31 , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 6 | The industry 's investment figure increased by almost 13 per cent from 1989 to 1990 , to £235 million . |
| 7 | With a targeted cash prize competition and a tie-up with local radio , traffic , claims Ryan , was boosted by almost 5 per cent . |
| 8 | The government was also committed to reducing radically the budget deficit by implementing cuts in social spending ; defence expenditure , however , is set to increase by almost 11.6 per cent [ see p. 38289 ] . |
| 9 | In Middlesex , the number of schools playing rugby has increased by almost 200 per cent since October and at Dorking last weekend , more than 1,000 boys and girls took part in a mini-rugby event . |
| 10 | Profit before tax increased by almost sixty per cent to eight million , eight hundred and seventy thousand . |
| 11 | Apart from Browne 's announcement that BP was increasing its North Sea investment by almost 10 per cent over the next three years , Shell outlined a scheme to spend £100 million refurbishing the Dunlin platform which will extend its economic life well into the next century . |
| 12 | Sickness absence overall fell sharply last year by almost 0.5 per cent of working time from the 1991 figure of 4.0 per cent . |
| 13 | Despite the recession total marketing and commercial revenue , which includes an increasing element of catering activity , advanced by almost ten per cent . |
| 14 | Their overall support was down by almost 20 per cent . |
| 15 | In the 1970s , for example , places such as Newmarket ( Suffolk ) and Huntingdon ( Cambs. ) grew by almost 20 per cent . |
| 16 | Those who previously qualified for the former , therefore , have lost out substantially , as their sickness pay has been cut by almost 20 per cent . |
| 17 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The jump in the value of the franc against sterling since last September has increased the value of stake by almost 20 per cent , but the terms of the original merger give its main French partner CGIP which also has 25.3 per cent of Carnaud-Metalbox , the right of first refusal . |
| 20 | Between 1971 and 1987 total period fertility rates declined by almost 22 per cent in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | The main engines of growth were capital spending ( under the June Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) agreement [ see below ; p. 36892 ] the Japanese government committed itself to spend 430,000,000 million yen ( US$3,200,000 million ) on public works over the next 10 years ) and domestic consumption ( domestic demand rose by almost 6 per cent during the year ) . |
| 22 | In December 1989 Kececiler 's faction persuaded the government to increase budget spending on the Religious Affairs Department by almost 240 per cent . |
| 23 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 24 | From January 1991 trade between the two countries had to be paid in fully convertible currency so that by April the value of exports to the Soviet Union had fallen by almost 60 per cent compared with a year previously . |
| 25 | Inflation accelerated during 1990 ( partly as a result of increased military spending necessitated by the Vietnamese troop withdrawal in 1989 ) , leading to a fall in the value of the riel by almost 60 per cent of its value during the course of the year . |
| 26 | Estimates in the NGC 's seven-year plan , published in March , that power supplies would exceed demand by almost 60 per cent by the late 1990s were almost certainly inaccurate . |
| 27 | Pre-tax profits in 1992 climbed 49 per cent to £147.2 million , on turnover boosted by almost 24 per cent to £1.6 billion , as outlined in the recent rights issue document . |
| 28 | Christian Salvesen , the food process and distribution , generator hire and brick making group , raised pre-tax profits by almost 21 per cent to £32.6million in the six months to September . |
| 29 | Divorce has increased by almost 600 per cent in 20 years . |
| 30 | For the domestic sector alone , this could reduce present annual CO2 emissions by almost 50 per cent by the year 2020 . |