Example sentences of "by over [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 2 | Imports of wine suffered a similar drop to those at Bristol ; indeed the average annual import fell even more drastically , by over 45 per cent , but the decline in cloth exports , by only a little over 15 per cent , was much less . |
| 3 | Seikosha has dropped the price of its SL-90 dot matrix printer by over 16 per cent . |
| 4 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Up by over 50 per cent since 1979 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead of controlling Government spending , and keeping the lid on inflation , the Labour Government borrowed more and more — increasing spending by over 12 per cent in just one year ( 1974–5 ) , and presiding over an inflationary spiral the like of which has never been recorded before or since . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Has the Prime Minister had time today to study the Department of Trade and Industry 's figures that were released on Tuesday , which showed that over the last five years Chinese quotas for the importation of cashmere garments into the European Community have been exceeded by 500,000 units and that in 1991 the actual importation exceeded the quotas by over 400 per cent ? |
| 11 | Following the record increase in Government funding of the Arts Council for 1992-93 , I am delighted that the council has decided to increase its touring budget for England for next year by over 19 per cent . |
| 12 | SERIOUS business fraud cases in the UK soared alarmingly by over 28 per cent in 1992 , to £468 million . |
| 13 | For women , the number was down by over 60 per cent to 142 from 364 . |
| 14 | since 1984 , and 999 calls are up by over 20 per cent . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | For example , sterling 's real exchange rate relative to the dollar rose by over 40 per cent between late 1977 and late 1980 , only to fall by about 35 per cent in the following two years . |
| 18 | Prior to this , SelecTronics had cut its work force by over 40 per cent to about 70 employees and the corporation 's president , Jim Finke , had resigned . |
| 19 | This July for example the government hiked up the price of milk by over 40 per cent . |
| 20 | According to December reports in the Bolivian press , the number of public employees would be reduced over the next five years by over 35 per cent under a programme drawn up by the government with the World Bank . |