Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] from [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVERFIELD-Reeve , the North Yorkshire-based structural steelwork group , is passing its final dividend after profits plunged from £1.9m to £530,000 last year . |
| 2 | In 6-month-old IPV recipients ( fig 1 ) , overall seroprevalences 4–6 weeks after vaccination increased from 73% to 94% ( 21% ) for type 1 , from 93% to 100% ( 7% ) for type 2 , and from 67% to 89% ( 22% ) for type 3 . |
| 3 | On the state of the oriental market in London at present , Roger Keverne , director of the recently-opened New Oriental Gallery in Davies Street commented that , ‘ there are people out there who will pay for quality ’ while noting that his opening exhibition in December carried a wide range of objects priced from £500 to £55,000 . |
| 4 | In total numbers the army of officialdom increased from 1.3m to 1.7m between 1960 and 1975 [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 5 | In Britain , sales of long-players dropped from 107.2m in 1978 to 92.6m in 1980 . |
| 6 | Sales of singles dropped from 88.8m to 77.8m . |
| 7 | Between 1970 and 1986 , says Mr Peterson of Harvard , the proportion of the elderly living in poverty fell by half ; the proportion of children increased from 15% to 20% . |
| 8 | The MasPar Prism compression system will be offered on a range of configurations priced from $250,000 to $1.5m and will be commercially available for end-users and system integrators in the third quarter . |
| 9 | Forty-five dealers will be present with objects priced from £150 to £250,000 . |
| 10 | First half losses before tax increased from £17.7m to £30.6m at Ratners ; Gerald Ratner received much criticism and there were calls for his resignation at the company 's agm . |
| 11 | After 1979 , the Thatcher administration announced wide-ranging cuts , yet the ratio of general government expenditure to GDP increased from 41% in the last year of the Labour government to 46.8% in 1982/83 . |
| 12 | Earnings per share edged from 17.9p to a record 18p , and a 3.64p final dividend is payable on June 5 to raise the total from 47/8p to 5¼p . |
| 13 | Earnings per share increased from 17.8p to 18.0p . |
| 14 | Tay 's earnings per share slumped from 5.5p to 3.04p , though turnover rose from almost £25.5 million to £27.2 million . |
| 15 | There was a handsome rise , too , in pre-tax revenue , from £4.78 million before to £5.15 million , and earnings per share improved from 17.83p to 19.49p for the Dundee-based trust , the UK 's second-biggest general investment fund . |
| 16 | Earnings per share dropped from 37.9p to 25.16p , but a final dividend of 10.25p ( 9.55p ) helps lift the total by 7.3 per cent to 16.2p . |
| 17 | Earnings per share dipped from 1.1p to 0.94p , and the dividend is held at 0.4p . |
| 18 | The total dividend is raised from 6.4p in 1991 to 7p after a final of 4.8p , though earnings per share dipped from 13.9p to 11.7p . |
| 19 | Margin on sales improved from 9% in 1991 to 13.4% as a result of increased volume sales of the Valor networking product range . |