Example sentences of "from [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her bust has reduced from 39½ inches to 35 inches ( a loss of 4½ inches ) , her waist from 35 inches to 28 inches ( 7 inches ) her hips from 43 inches to 37½ inches ( 5½ inches ) and her widest part ( around the lower hips and thighs ) had reduced by 7 inches from 45 inches to 38 inches . |
| 2 | The nucleation time was prolonged from 1.5 days to 12.2 and 13.2 days after the addition 2.5 µmol of synthetic lecithins . |
| 3 | Documents leaked to The Observer purport to reveal that radionuclides , which have been associated with cancer , are being discharged into the sewage system from 750 locations in the Thames region , including hospitals , universities and industrial sites . |
| 4 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 5 | Compared with the compensation payments introduced during the first stage of price liberalization , these went up from 750 lei to 2,100 lei per month for workers , and from 400 lei to 1,470 lei for pensioners , while there were also increases in child benefits , maternity benefits and student grants . |
| 6 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 7 | However , from 1934 claims for poetry 's transcendence of science begin to find their way into the review sections ( for example , science is seen as limited to " the analytic faculty " , while poetry involves the " instinctive apprehension of the whole " ) . |
| 8 | For example , the amount of coal shipped from Derbyshire via the route had fallen from 125,000 tons in 1850 to 73,000 in 1855 , and by 1894 to 4,700 tons . |
| 9 | Responses were received from 109 companies that , in total , account for almost 70% of the total R&D expenditure reported by companies in the 1992 R&D scoreboard . |
| 10 | Having thundered 116 from 109 balls against West Indies last year , he had a ball against the Pakistanis , threatening a twist to a predictable tale with 74 off 44 balls in a one day warm-up that became a tad too hot to handle . |
| 11 | Cocoa production increased by 58 per cent , from 190,000 tonnes in 1987/88 to 300,000 tonnes in 1988/89 , although the fall in world prices [ see p. 37335 ] hit export earnings from the crop . |
| 12 | From 75 minutes by car ferry and from 30 minutes by hovercraft . |
| 13 | Systems are available from 75 gallons to 350 gallons . |
| 14 | At the Allan Hills about 1200 specimens have been collected from 75 sq . |
| 15 | FEBC is the sister organisation of the UK-based Far East Broadcasting Association and broadcasts in 122 languages from 32 transmitters worldwide . |
| 16 | Over 500 cricket clubs from 32 counties are being invited to enter a knockout competition , commencing in September and progressing through six rounds , quarter and semi-final stages to a grand final to be held at Lord 's Cricket Ground in April 1993 and chaired by Brian Johnston — ably assisted by Tim Rice and Bill Franklyn as team captains . |
| 17 | The humpback 's singing can be heard from 32 kilometres away and so probably helps to bring breeding individuals together . |
| 18 | Horstmeyer has raised $200 000 from 32 investors , all with connections in the oil industry , to launch Advanced Drilling . |
| 19 | REPRESENTATIVES from 32 companies from all over Mid Wales met at Coleg Powys , Newtown , to learn about a new state-of-the-art manufacturing method , Just in Time . |
| 20 | The analyst programmer based at the Barlaston computer department , who compiles all of the quizzes for Newsline , came top from 32 teams of four . |
| 21 | Based on MIPS Technologies Inc 's R3002A microprocessor , the ES servers are configured with from two to 24 CPUs and are rated at from 32 MIPS to 768 MIPS . |
| 22 | Serum samples were taken from 32 patients with ulcerative colitis ( 19 males and 13 females ) . |
| 23 | The mean ADCC activity of the serum samples from 32 patients with ulcerative colitis was 9.6 ( SD 9.9 ) % and that from normal controls was 2.8 ( 2.5 ) % . |
| 24 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 25 | Earlier , Australia 's total was anchored by a typically solid innings of 78 from 138 balls by Marsh , with Border making 38 before becoming another run-out victim . |
| 26 | From 1935 Noel was increasingly oppressed by the diabetes from which he suffered , blindness , and a cancerous growth , but nothing could dampen his spirits , and when he could no longer sing the liturgy , he learned it off by heart . |
| 27 | The test of the system coincides with the announcement that the second conference for woodturning instructors ' will be held in Sweden from 28–31 May 1992 . |
| 28 | Effectively the spreadsheet consists of a large , anywhere from 65,000 cells to 2 million or more , sheet of squared paper . |
| 29 | Water depths of tracts in which BPX had high bids ranged from 2,300 feet to 4,700 feet . |
| 30 | Analysis of long-term temperature records from 120 sites in the northern hemisphere found that desertified areas had warmed by an average of 1.23 degrees centigrade . |