Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] from [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period the number of book issues sampled from library authorities has grown from 3m to 10.6m . |
| 2 | But intake of other green vegetables has increased from 0.19oz to 0.50oz per week . |
| 3 | Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% . |
| 4 | Pupils are losing out as the cost of arson attacks on schools has doubled from £60m to £120m . |
| 5 | The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While turnover overall has advanced from £46.09m to £55.37m , reflecting the inclusion of BMK for a 10 month period , comparable turnover year on year was down 11% . |
| 8 | In total our fruit consumption has risen from 61lb to 69lb per person . |
| 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 | As a result , Asia 's share in world output has jumped from 7% to 18% . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 13 | Pre-tax profits for the year to October have climbed from £23.7m to £26.3m , with a lot of the impetus stemming from cost cutting and improved productivity . |
| 14 | Gas demand has increased from 12% to 16% of total energy consumed over the same period but the major energy source remains coal at nearly 60% of demand in 1983 . |
| 15 | For example , the number of female non-family households has increased from 7% to 16% of the total number of households between 1950 and 1984 ; and the prevalence of disorder is 27% for this group , compared with an average of 23.4% . |
| 16 | ( This too is demonstrated by the statistics , for as RICS entrants have declined from 41.2% in 1981 to 26.5% in 1984 , so the graduate intake has increased from 6% to 13.8% over the same period . ) |
| 17 | A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years . |
| 18 | Sales had increased from £183m to £289m . |
| 19 | Operating profits of the Imperial cigarettes to Butterley bricks giant have soared from £955m to £1.07bn for the year to September 1992 , and this year should be just as buoyant . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Manufacturers ' rate of return on capital has jumped from 2% to 10% . |
| 22 | Capital employed increased from £152000 to £591 000 , and the return on capital employed , ( ROCE ) from only 30% in 1982 to 74% by 1984 . |
| 23 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In 9-month-old IPV recipients ( fig 2 ) , overall seroprevalences 4–6 weeks after vaccination had increased from 85% to 97% ( 12% ) for type 1 , from 93% to 100% ( 7% ) for type 2 , and from 76% to 92% ( 16% ) for type 3 . |
| 26 | The proportion of holidays of four nights and above between October and April has grown from 14% in 1976 to 22% last year , while August holidays have slipped from 24% to 20% and July from 25% to 18% . |
| 27 | Since 1985 the white grapes of this village have been elevated to grand cru status , but , while its black grapes have increased from 90% to 95% échelle , they maintain the rank of premier cru . |
| 28 | The value of the project has increased from £3m to £8m . |
| 29 | Geoff Williams , another former holder , and Phil Whitlock , an England international , have both declined to play because they are disappointed with the marketing of the championships and by the fact that the prize fund has descended from £16,780 to £9,000 despite the presence of television . |
| 30 | Geoff Williams , another former holder , and Phil Whitlock , an England international , have both declined to play because they are disappointed with the marketing of the championships and by the fact that the prize fund has descended from £16,780 to £9,000 despite the presence of television . |