Example sentences of "[num] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presenting the final 1992 results ( figures , page seven ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA said that sales in lire terms rose 5.5% in the first three months of 1993 from a year earlier , but they did n't give any absolute revenue figures ; in terms of volume , Olivetti said personal computer sales in Europe jumped 72% in the first quarter from a year earlier , printer sales rose 42% ; the firm will break even at the operating level this year but will not return to profit until 1994 , chairman Carlo De Benedetti said . |
| 2 | They were ( i ) the reduction of the budget deficit from 24 per cent of GDP in 1988 to 10 per cent in 1990 ; ( ii ) cutting inflation to around 7 per cent in 1993 from about 14 per cent in 1989 ; and ( iii ) achieving a current-account balance in 1993 from a deficit equivalent to 6 per cent of GDP in 1988 . |
| 3 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 4 | Following the transfer of responsibility for social rehabilitation of discharged patients in 1993 from the NHS to local authorities , greater emphasis may be given to developing work schemes . |
| 5 | But Mr Foulds said the number of properties repossessed had halved in 1993 from the previous year 's . |
| 6 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 7 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 8 | The Great Western Weekend will be made up of an intensive service using 5029 , the railway 's own resident ex-GW ‘ Odney Manor , ’ and another visitor , 2-8-0T 5220 from the Great Central Railway . |
| 9 | Well now , as a Debenhams Cardholder , you can — by transferring your mortgage to HeadStart 531 from The Mortgage Corporation . |
| 10 | It is less clear how far the Household itself differed after 1540 from the Household of the Yorkists . |
| 11 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 12 | All loco-hauling has ceased on the Crewe-Cardiff route , though a shortage of Classes 155 and 156 on Easter Monday evening led to the use of a Class 150/2 from the Cardiff Valley Lines . |
| 13 | Rangers , precariously ahead 2-1 from the first leg , conceded four corners in 12 frenetic minutes . |
| 14 | US CHIP BOOK-TO-BILL RATIO SLIPS TO 1.18 FROM A REVISED 1.20 IN JANUARY |
| 15 | An attempt was made to construct the dawg shown in figure 3.7 from an ASCII word list . |
| 16 | However , with called up ordinary shares totalling nearly 274,000 from an authorised figure of 350,000 , the vast majority of DVR shareholders still fall into the category of casual supporters who bought a stake to help the Company succeed in running the original Dart Valley line from Totnes to Ashburton , and the later Torbay acquisition . |
| 17 | Nomura and Nikko had been removed by the World Bank on Sept. 12 from a list of dealers eligible to bid for its bond underwriting business , and Nomura was under further examination by the Fair Trade Commission for possible breaches of anti-monopoly legislation relating to property transactions . |
| 18 | We established many such contacts : 12 from the furuno sonar and another 28 from Simrad . |
| 19 | A coach part of 45 strong travelled to the Albert Hall and had a very pleasant evening watching the displays ; another group of 12 from the Melbourne class went to the afternoon performance . |
| 20 | A 10 per cent increase in cholera cases in 1989 was also reported , bringing the total to 48,403 from a total of 35 countries . |
| 21 | The star of the Order of the Garter had been adopted in 1881 from the old badge of The Royal Sussex Militia . |
| 22 | About 50 military vehicles will supplement 53 from the police and voluntary organisations , such as the St John Ambulance . |
| 23 | About 50 military vehicles will supplement 53 from the police and voluntary organisations , such as the St John Ambulance . |
| 24 | The quotation on page 53 from the Bhagavad Gita appears to support the idea not only that many gods exist but that many gods can be followed and worshipped . |
| 25 | The New Party had been funded in January 1931 by a gift of 50,000 from the motor manufacturer William Morris , later Lord Nuffield , and encouraged by defections from the Labour party , including six members of the House of Commons . |
| 26 | The UK parent wishes to take advantage of the exemption in s 248 of the Companies Act 1985 from the requirement to prepare group accounts . |
| 27 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 28 | McKenna , Travers and McGoohan each earned 7,500 from the new film . |
| 29 | Author , Peter Madden and British beef farmer , Chris Jones , return to the UK on Friday , April 30 from a fact-finding visit to Burkina Faso , west Africa . |
| 30 | Latest figures show a growth of £332 million in the three months to September 30 from the exceptionally low figure of £155 million in the previous quarter . |