Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Prices for Matisse 's graphic work mainly lithographs which he created on and off throughout his life have climbed by 420% since 1975 . |
| 6 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |