Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from an [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 2 | Part of this has come from an influx of retired people , and it has therefore accentuated the already very unbalanced age composition of the population resulting from the emigration of the younger people . |
| 3 | At one time , he was taken as a founding figure for American sociology of a quite different complexion ; while , more recently , interest in his work had developed from an assessment of his considerable influence on Lukács and , through him , to a certain tradition of Western Marxism . |
| 4 | But while Human League had emerged from an ethic of post-punk avant-gardism , pop 's new wave was narrower in outlook . |
| 5 | A report published by the UK environmental organization Friends of the Earth on Dec. 14 , 1989 , estimated that global rainforest destruction had doubled from an average of 75,000 sq km per year in the 1970s to 142,000 sq km per year in the 1980s . |