Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [n mass] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional Fees have risen from £10,000 to nearly £42,000 largely because of the need to employ solicitors , surveyors and agents for the move of the Council 's offices to Bedford Row . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 6 | The share price was chopped from 50p to just 21p following a short , sharp trading statement . |