Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders benefit from a dividend total lifted from 18.8p in 1991 to 19.1p , after a final of 12.9p , but holders of L&G investment policies will not do so well . |
| 2 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 3 | Thailand 's GDP per head , for example , is lifted from $1,780 to $1,580 . |
| 4 | With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 . |
| 5 | The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 . |
| 6 | ‘ An order has come from headquarters that you are all to be freed this afternoon , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Vocal opposition , such as it is , has come from people who are retired from public life , who have been purged or pushed to one side by the Ceausescu leadership , or who have been forced to make do with a moral posture on key issues , registering their dissent , but no more . |
| 8 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 9 | I conclude from that that the technical information on on all the sectors is at best patchy , erm and where it 's comprehensive it 's come from people who are advocating a particular development proposal . |
| 10 | She said that the complaints had come from people on the same estate who were ‘ really quite close ’ to the former rectory . |
| 11 | The result has been to generate a flood of good ideas — many of which have come from people working in market-oriented sectors . |
| 12 | Estimates of the cost of covering the tailings lake with soil varied from £2 million to £7 million . |
| 13 | Response rates varied from 98% in 1968–70 to about 90% in subsequent five year spans . |
| 14 | In 1989 the board and lodging allowance varied from £140 to £230 a week depending upon the category of resident . |
| 15 | The sum lent by Macrae is not known and reports have varied from £5,000 to £15,000 . |
| 16 | Since the introduction of Medicare in 1984 the proportion of the population covered by private insurance has dropped from 62% in 1983 to 42% in 1992 , with a large decrease in coverage among young people . |
| 17 | And interest in watching Commons TV declined over time ; the numbers who said they would be or were ‘ very interested ’ in watching dropped from 24% before televising started to 10% after three months , with a corresponding rise in those who said they were ‘ not at all interested ’ from 18% to 30% . |
| 18 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 19 | Compared with the first five months of 1990 , exports dropped from $3,050 million to $1,460 million , and imports from US$4,110 million to US$1,590 million . |
| 20 | But the machines have been overwhelmed since the 1960s , not least by the impact of mass media and by demographic upheaval : New York 's non-Hispanic white population dropped from 77% of the total to 43% between 1960 and 1990 . |
| 21 | In those years , the Communist vote dropped from 80% to less than 10% . |
| 22 | MT 's 20 losers , whose collective worth dropped from £2.8 billion to £455 million , would no doubt agree |
| 23 | Prime 's third quarter revenues dropped from $391 million to $358 million , while a profit of $12 million turned into a $105 million loss . |
| 24 | Earnings per share rose from 1.4p to 2p , though turnover dropped from £209.7 million to £174 million . |
| 25 | Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and defence barrister James Hunt QC told the jury she is suffering from severe anorexia . |
| 26 | Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and a defence barrister , James Hunt , QC , told the jury she was suffering from severe anorexia . |
| 27 | The shares dropped from 15½p to 8½p . |
| 28 | 2.8 " Insured Risks " means fire [ lightning explosion aircraft ( including articles dropped from aircraft ) riot civil commotion malicious persons earthquake storm tempest flood bursting and overflowing of water pipes tanks and other apparatus and impact by road vehicles ] and such other risks as the Landlord from time to time in [ its ] absolute discretion may think fit to insure against |
| 29 | In Britain , sales of long-players dropped from 107.2m in 1978 to 92.6m in 1980 . |
| 30 | DIOCESAN accounts show that investments have dropped from £4,327,000 at March 31 , 1989 , to £1,851,000 at March 31st this year . |