Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what response he has received from organisations concerned with the countryside about his ideas for extra motorway service areas . |
| 2 | Over the last five years criminal legal aid has soared from £25 million to £47 million while advice and assistance has gone up from £5.9 million to £15.4 million . |
| 3 | In England and Wales , the sex ratio at birth has fallen from 106.3in 1971–5 to 104.8in 1988 ( Shaw 1989 ) . |
| 4 | Because of the increased efficiency of our exploration programme , our spending on this activity has fallen from £744 million in 1990 to £xxx million in 1992 . |
| 5 | The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect . |
| 6 | INVESTORS are exploring whether they have grounds for legal action against MTM , the troubled chemicals group whose value has collapsed from £256 million in February to £22 million . |
| 7 | Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same . |
| 8 | The revenue lost through exempting the sale of an individual 's home from capital gains has risen from £1.5 billion to £2.6 billion since 1979 . |
| 9 | As a result of falling CD yields the price has risen from £102 406.41 to £102 901.66 . |
| 10 | In that regard , the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire will be aware that since we took office in 1979 the expenditure has risen from £4.5 billion to more than £12 billion . |
| 11 | Over the same period the cost of these schemes has risen from £10.63 million to £24.81 million , partly the result of the larger number of schemes , the increasing cost of materials and labour and perhaps also the increasing scale and thoroughness of many of the schemes carried out . |
| 12 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
| 13 | Subscription income has risen from £.743 m to £.779 m , an increase of 4.8% . |
| 14 | In the same period , civil legal aid has moved from £15.7 million to £16.5 million , a fall of nearly 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 15 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |
| 16 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 17 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 18 | The department 's budget in this area has increased from £218 million in 1981–82 to £310 million this financial year . |
| 19 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
| 20 | Software house Chantal Systems in San Diego , California has gone from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 . |
| 21 | Operational income has decreased from £1.792 m to £1.700 m as has expenditure from £1.754 m to £1.709 m . |
| 22 | Turnover has surged from £6 million to £10 million and the firm is working 24 hours a day , six days a week throughout the year to meet demand . |
| 23 | ‘ On a fine Spring morning some sixty years ago I saw a crowd of half-nude men digging ruthlessly into the old grave barrow that has stood from time immemorial on the eastern slope of the hill between the traditional Hurlers and that towering rock idol , the Cheesewring . |
| 24 | A DARLINGTON businessman has returned from Japan full of new ideas to encourage more NorthEast children to take up music . |
| 25 | Oslin Williams , who was severely burned last year in a fire which killed his father at their caravan home , would have died from asphyxiation due to scarring of his windpipe if he had not had the operation , surgeons said . |
| 26 | Expenditure on TV in the year after BBC2 started increased from £27.6 million to £35.8 million ( BBC , 1966 , p. 194 ) . |
| 27 | It seems more likely , however , to have been the result of major historical transformations , including the separation of work from home , and the growing centrality of the individual in the economy and the general ideology , than to have derived from developments intrinsic to a landed class . |
| 28 | The national conference convened to settle the country 's political future [ see p. 37908 ] , which was originally to have run from Feb. 25 to March 12 , was extended until the end of April . |
| 29 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 30 | In three years VPI 's value had risen from £9.55 million to £121 million . |