Example sentences of "by nearly [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Investment is forecast to fall by 6 per cent and employment by nearly 4 per cent . |
| 3 | In the last 18 months of recession , unemployment in Britain has gone up by 1 million and the British economy has contracted by nearly 4 per cent . |
| 4 | Between 1932 and the peak of activity in 1937 real income increased by 19 per cent , gross domestic production by 23 per cent , industrial production by nearly 46 per cent and gross fixed investment by 47 per cent . |
| 5 | But book and magazine sales at Smiths rose by nearly six per cent . |
| 6 | Incidents requiring attendance by police officers are up by nearly 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Catches of Scottish salmon have declined by nearly 80 per cent since 1973 , according to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization . |
| 8 | That rise means Alliance has outstripped the FT-A Index for the fourth successive year , this time by nearly 5 per cent . |
| 9 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 10 | In Jamaica the cost of a market-basket of staple foods shot up by nearly 100 per cent between 1983 and 1986 . |
| 11 | For the ACCs as a whole real take-home pay rose by nearly 1 per cent per year faster in the early 1970s than in the 1960s , despite the slowdown in productivity growth ( table 11.9 ) . |
| 12 | UK new cars sales plunged by nearly 26 per cent in February in what was described by a spokesman for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders as ‘ the biggest month-on-month February drop I can remember . ’ |
| 13 | Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) . |
| 14 | Defence spending was set to increase by nearly 6 per cent to Rs76,000 million . |
| 15 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Silk was favoured by nearly 50 per cent of women . |
| 18 | For the whole sector it is much in line with the overall growth of GDP , but it is noteworthy that between 1951 and 1964 insurance , and banking and finance grew by nearly 50 per cent faster than GDP and between 1964 and 1973 by just over 90 per cent [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 19 | For example in 1984 the world semiconductor market grew by nearly 50 per cent , but 1985 was a disaster , or shake-out , year ; 1988 as another year of huge growth . |
| 20 | Alan 's vitamin A levels fell by nearly 50 per cent in six weeks . |
| 21 | Whilst the total number of holidays authorized increased by nearly 50 per cent over the period shown both Thomson and Intasun expanded by a greater proportion but with Intasun far outstripping Thomson 's growth . |
| 22 | The average male sperm density has fallen by nearly 50 per cent over the past 50 years , according to a new Danish study of 15,000 men worldwide , suggesting that environmental factors may be to blame . |
| 23 | From 1980 , serious assaults in bars jumped by nearly 50 per cent to 775 in 1989 . |
| 24 | Between 1971 and 1975 the global grain trade grew by nearly 50 per cent in volume , most of the increase coming from the United States . |
| 25 | While the manufacturing sector showed its usual robust health , 1990 saw considerable volatility in Japan 's financial markets , with equities plunging by nearly 15 per cent during the first three months of the year . |
| 26 | Fallow land rose by nearly 30 per cent to 37,000 hectares , of which just over 24,000 hectares was set-aside under the fallow option . |
| 27 | In this case the familiar fraction was given by nearly 90 per cent of pupils who gave a correct answer . |
| 28 | Between 1966 and 1975 , real earnings per employee rose by nearly 90 per cent in RENFE , although they were starting from a very low base in absolute terms ( Ferner and Fina 1988 ) . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman will want to know that during the past two years personal social services standard spending will have increased by nearly 33 per cent . |
| 30 | The freehold pub market rose by nearly 40 per cent last year , while residential prices ground to a halt . |