Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] from the [num] " in BNC.

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1 High fertility in Ireland ( by modern standards ) depended upon the institutionalized pattern of high emigration which prevented population rising from the 1840s until the 1950s .
2 Bundesrat representatives came from the 10 Land ( state ) governments , of which the SPD now controlled six including the cities of Bremen and Hamburg ; the SPD also controlled West Berlin , in coalition with the Greens , but West Berlin did not have voting representation in the Bundesrat .
3 A report released on Aug. 2 by a UN team assigned to assess damage resulting from the 1980-88 war with Iraq [ see p. 38309 ] found that " the damage inflicted on the country 's infrastructure was of a magnitude and nature that will require several years of repair or reconstruction " .
4 Fading newspaper reports from the mid-1800s stand testimony to the power of the river .
5 Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties , sixties and seventies .
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