Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] risen [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 2 | The " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had already risen by 60 per cent in six weeks to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 , passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 , with production down by the 4,000,000 barrels per day of lost Iraqi and Saudi production . |
| 3 | Imports had also risen by 18 per cent to US$6,610 million . |
| 4 | Zou 's report called for greater control of investment in fixed assets , which had reportedly risen by 21 per cent in the first half of the year compared with the same period of 1990 , so as to concentrate on priority projects including water conservation , agriculture , energy , transport , key raw materials , health and education . |
| 5 | Furthermore she also showed that the number of hours spent by women doing housework had actually risen between 1950 and 1971 ( 1974b p 7 ) . |
| 6 | Indeed , by April 15 the number of mines affected by the strike nationwide had actually risen to 163 , and at the end of April the strike was still holding in most of those mines . |