Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% . |
| 2 | 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% . |
| 3 | In total our fruit consumption has risen from 61lb to 69lb per person . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a result , Asia 's share in world output has jumped from 7% to 18% . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years . |
| 11 | As the commitment came due in July , the exchange rate had climbed above $1.40 to the pound , leaving Virgin with a loss of £0.5m . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The cost of the tunnel has risen by £2.2bn to £7bn — forcing Eurotunnel to return to its bankers for fresh loans . |
| 15 | Manufacturers ' rate of return on capital has jumped from 2% to 10% . |
| 16 | Capital employed increased from £152000 to £591 000 , and the return on capital employed , ( ROCE ) from only 30% in 1982 to 74% by 1984 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The value of the project has increased from £3m to £8m . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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% . |
| 22 | The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Committee was formed in 1887 and the colliery owners and public of this area played a prominent part in maintaining the hospital ; so much so that by 1935 the three bed hospital now had 153 beds and its income had increased from £300 to £18,000 . |
| 23 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 24 | Over the same period the outpatient cover has risen from £300 to £440 ( 49% ) . |
| 25 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 26 | Since then the market has grown from £12m to more than £230m , according to industry estimates . |
| 27 | Short-term mortality among patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia has ranged from 6% to 33% . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson yesterday told the garages and property group 's bankers that its value has collapsed from £585m to £135m . |
| 30 | The number of drawings sold has increased from eight to ten , but the total value has decreased from £5,600 to £4,400 . |