Sentence examples for by a quarter between from inspiring English sources

He increased military spending by a quarter between 1981 and 1985.

Its lending to British firms rose by a quarter between 2009-10 and 2011-12.

Output fell by a quarter between 2007 and 2009, and unemployment peaked at 21%.

Shipping services have made a recent comeback; overseas earnings rose by a quarter between 2002 and 2004.

New government figures released this month showed that households in England and Wales cut their energy use by a quarter between 2005 and 2011 as prices soared.

"In the UK, the share of national income going to wages of workers in the bottom half of the earnings distribution decreased by a quarter between 1979 and 2009.

The number of offences reported by the police fell by over a quarter between 1 December and 4 January when compared to the previous year.

This meant China leapfrogged into Britain's top 10 most valuable markets, while bookings from China to the UK are up by nearly a quarter between October and December this year.

America cut its habit by about a quarter between 2006 and 2010, according to the UN, and the number of employees failing workplace cocaine tests fell by two-thirds.Dwindling sales in el norte are not unique to the drugs business.

He said the previous government had cut child poverty by nearly a quarter between 1998 and 2009 after it increased spending on benefits and tax credits.

Simon Williams, RAC spokesman, said the concerns are "perhaps well-founded, as traffic police officer numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter between 2010 and 2014 across forces in England and Wales, so it is hard to see how people flouting the law are going to be caught.