Example sentences of "by about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both American Express and Diners Club have lost ground to Mastercard Gold , which increased its share of the market by about 38 per cent in 1990 ( although from a small base ) and now has 19 per cent of the cards in issue by volume , compared with American Express ' 57 per cent and Diners Club 's 13 per cent , says Market Assessment . |
| 2 | It was expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 3 | It is expected to reduce the state 's total emissions of air pollutants by about 5 per cent , or 1,435 tonnes per day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That should , it was suggested , reduce the likelihood of any problems by about fifty per cent . |
| 6 | First of all applications to the University rose by about thirteen per cent , which was very much better than what happened to all other universities . |
| 7 | If we did that , we could probably reduce the number of applications by about 75 per cent . |
| 8 | THE London stock market is down by about 8 per cent from this year 's peak . |
| 9 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 10 | The context within which the General Strike occurred was one in which the Baldwin government had returned to the gold standard and within which employers in exporting countries were faced with the need to reduce costs , and thus wages , by about 10 per cent . |
| 11 | In the two years before its death , advertising volume dropped by a quarter and circulation by about 10 per cent ( Clark , 1981 , p. 12 ) . |
| 12 | Moreover , whilst in the retailing sector enterprises might supplement their labour forces by about 10 per cent to cope with seasonal peaks , in the holidays sector the increase made might be as high as several hundred per cent . |
| 13 | If the electricity currently provided by nuclear power stations were to be generated by coal , the United Kingdom would emit about 55 million tonnes more carbon dioxide , increasing total emissions by about 10 per cent . |
| 14 | Ten years later in Oyo State , which has a total of about 100,000 farming families , nearly half of the land area had been planted with the new variety which out-yields the local varieties by about 25 per cent . |
| 15 | Recipes in magazines and books ( and cooking times on many pre-packed foods ) are generally based on 600 to 700 W. If you buy a more powerful oven , you 'll need to reduce the cooking time by about 25 per cent , or lower the power level to the equivalent of 600 to 700 W and cook for the normal time . |
| 16 | There is an index to the schedules , but this has been criticized in connection with the inadequate size of its entry vocabulary , the number of entries in the index only exceeding those subjects listed in the schedules by about 25 per cent . |
| 17 | — cutting US strategic weapons by about 25 per cent , from about 12,000 war-heads to 9,000 ; |
| 18 | Sperm quantity has also declined , by about 25 per cent . |
| 19 | The value of exports rose by 29 per cent to Rs202,800 million , helped by the depreciation by about 12 per cent of the rupee and liberalization measures . |
| 20 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 21 | That 'd be a bit too drastic , but I 've cut the intake by about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 22 | This was to be achieved by increasing the cost of buying and running cars by about 50 per cent . |
| 23 | By lining up all the deuterons with the magnetic field , it is , in theory , possible to increase the fusion rate by about 50 per cent . |
| 24 | We 've increased business by about 50 per cent in the past six months and our turnover is going to be double last year . |
| 25 | These 30 km/h schemes with speed-reducing infrastructure have reduced the severity of accidents by about 50 per cent . |
| 26 | Eric Sortwell , manager of the Asda superstore at Bedminster , Bristol , said yesterday : ‘ We had to underestimate each bill by about 50 per cent . ’ |
| 27 | We were told that typically it could increase the level of instalments by about seven per cent — say , 35p on top of a £5 instalment . |
| 28 | Heat usually lost up the chimney is recovered and passes back into the room ; in fact , some models claim to increase efficiency by about 40 per cent . |
| 29 | Between 1951 and 1985 , the population of Great Britain increased by 12 per cent , but the number of households increased far more — by about 40 per cent . |
| 30 | Mention has been made of direct labour and of how such organisations have reduced the number of trainees by about 40 per cent . |