Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from [n mass] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares in the quoted radio stocks in 1988 outperformed the market by 100 per cent , and since March 1987 , the sector 's market value has soared from £33m to over £400m . |
| 2 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 3 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 4 | At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% . |
| 5 | Since then the market has grown from £12m to more than £230m , according to industry estimates . |
| 6 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 7 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 8 | Professional Fees have risen from £10,000 to nearly £42,000 largely because of the need to employ solicitors , surveyors and agents for the move of the Council 's offices to Bedford Row . |
| 9 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 10 | Profits of the Bisto-to-Mr-Kipling-cakes giant have nose-dived from £150m to just over £92m with big bites taken out of both bread and cakes . |