Example sentences of "rise [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Men were significantly more likely to be employed than women ( 60% v 51% ; difference 2.0 to 16.1 ) and the proportion in employment rose with age to 40 years and decreased thereafter ( table II ) .
2 However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income .
3 When asset sales are excluded , earnings per share rose from 3.4p to 5p , a 47pc increase .
4 In Canada , where premium income rose from $96.1m to $139.8m following the acquisition of the general insurance business of the Prudential Corporation , the deficit for the quarter was up from $2.9m to $11.8m — a relatively satisfactory performance in difficult market conditions .
5 Turnover climbed from £187.2 million to £204.5 million , while earnings per share rose from 5.8p to 6.5p .
6 When the syntactic component was switched off , the error rate rose from 4% to 30% .
7 Of unmarried women who became pregnant , the proportion who married the father before the baby was born fell from 40% in 1970 to 11% in 1988 , whereas the proportion of pregnancies terminated by abortion rose from 24% to 37% .
8 Their net confidence rose from 24% to 46% .
9 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company reported that first half profit before tax rose from £73.1m to £101.1m .
10 Ecu bonds rose from 5% to 10% .
11 Third quarter replacement cost profit rose from £129m to £172m at British Petroleum , and rose by 58% to £824m at Royal Dutch/Shell Group .
12 THE sudden popularity of the Portuguese escudo , which rose from obscurity to a position of strength inside the European exchange rate mechanism after it joined a week ago , could lead to the removal of restrictions on foreign investment earlier than planned .
13 Tipping fees at New York city 's only landfill , Fresh Kills , rose from $10 to $150 a ton between October 1991 and July 1992 ; in northern New Jersey , tipping fees have shown a similar increase .
14 Losses before tax rose from £47.9m to £146.4m in the year to 30 September 1992 at National Home Loans .
15 European profits rose from £30m to £42m .
16 First half profit before tax rose from £43.75m to £47.07m at Tomkins in spite of sales falling by 3.2% to £575.5m .
17 Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals :
18 Earnings per share in the third quarter rose from 17.4p to 18.77p and for the nine months from 45.82p to 48.84p .
19 Earnings per share in the third quarter rose from 17.4p to 18.77p and for the nine months from 45.82p to 48.84p .
20 Glaxo rose from 799p to 812p , Wellcome put on 18 to £11.28 and Unilever ended 24 higher at 920p .
21 New statistics show average incomes rose from £338 to £343 a week ( 1.4pc after inflation ) while average spending increased to £272 from £257 a week ( 5.8pc or 2.3pc after inflation ) .
22 British Telecom 's contributions rose from £750,000 to £3 million between 1988 and 1990 and those of British Gas leapt from £234,000 to £1.6 million .
23 Profits from that area rose from £34m to £53m .
24 Increased market share as new annual premiums rose from $39m to $45.8m and single premiums from $126m to $241.6m .
25 Over the period , ICI 's reported HC sales rose from less than £2bn to nearly £13bn ; and GEC 's HC sales ( excluding related companies ) rose from £1bn to nearly £6bn .
26 Capital spending on the environment rose from £184m to £305m , from eight to 14 per cent of total capital expenditure .
27 In the nine months to 30 September , profit before tax at The Telegraph group rose from £27.5m to £30.3m ; eps fell from 16.5p to 15.7p .
28 The federation 's finances also picked up , mainly because subscriptions rose from £286,000 to £323,000 .
29 By Easter heavy frosts had ended hopes of a good harvest that year , and in the summer and autumn food riots broke out in the country at large as the price of a quartern loaf — where one could be had at all — rose from 3d. to over 1s .
30 So the payment increased on average by 75% between the first and the second repetition , while the group payments rose from 93% to 108% ( of an individual payment ) between the first and second repetition clear evidence of a learning effect and slight evidence of a group effect .
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