Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] from [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although actual imports have fallen from 337 million tonnes in 1980 to 246 million tonnes in 1983 due to lower domestic consumption , between 1983 and the year 2000 average yearly net oil imports will rise by 100% to over 400 million tonnes . |
| 2 | Since then , sales have jumped from 6.86 billion francs to 8.56 billion in 1992 , while pre-tax profits have soared to 443 million francs from 130 million in 1988 . |
| 3 | Maybe I can never convince you that I am other than a spirit , for what I have to tell you is this : that I have come from two hundred years in the future to speak to you — to sit here by this window and talk as we talk now ! ’ |
| 4 | In the ten years between nineteen eighty two and nineteen ninety two imports have risen from four million tons to twenty million tons . |
| 5 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |