Example sentences of "population [verb] from [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its population rose from 729 in 1801 to 2,602 in 1891 . |
| 2 | Between 1921 and 1931 the German population of the Corridor fell from 177,942 to 109,696 , while the Polish population rose from 935,643 to 1,080,100 . |
| 3 | Between 1801 and 1851 its population rose from 2,015 to 4,921 . |
| 4 | Though always an important crossing place , the village remained relatively small until the 19th century , when the population rose from 170 in 1801 to 417 in 1861 . |
| 5 | Syston 's population rose from 1,124 in 1801 to 1,669 in 1851 and 2,930 in 1901 , but this growth was not sustained by the hosiery trade . |
| 6 | Kettering 's population rose from 5,198 in 1851 to 29,972 sixty years later and the villages of Burton Latimer and Desborough grew spectacularly . |
| 7 | At the other side of Derbyshire from Ashbourne , Chesterfield 's population rose from 4,267 in 1801 to 7,101 in 1851 , but most of the important industrial developments — especially the potteries , ironworks and collieries — took place beyond the borough boundary in the outlying parts of the parish , particularly in the township of Brampton . |
| 8 | This trend was discouraged by the government , but the capital 's population rose from 24 per cent of the total population in 1980 to 33 per cent in 1986 . |
| 9 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
| 10 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | A council covers an area with a population ranging from 200 to 600 people and is elected for a six-month or one-year period of office . |
| 12 | During the ten years up to 1989 , the African elephant population plummeted from 1.3 million to just over half a million . |
| 13 | The report estimates that up to 40,000 plants could die out by the middle of next century , if the population expands from 5,000 million to 8,000 million by 2020 , as currently predicted . |
| 14 | Marble quarrying operations on the fringe of the 200 square kilometre Sariska reserve have disrupted the fragile ecology of the park , driving away cheetahs , leopards , sambars and wild boar , as well as the tigers , whose recorded population fell from 45 in 1988 to just 19 a year later . |
| 15 | Laxton 's population fell from 534 in 1851 to 500 a decade later . |
| 16 | During the same decade Dronfield 's population fell from 5,169 to 4,166 . |
| 17 | The incidence of pancreatitis discharges in the whole population increased from 46.6 to 73.4/100000/year ( by 58% ) during the two decade study period ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 18 | During this period the percentage of retired people within the population increased from 13 per cent to 18 per cent . |
| 19 | The mean age of the population increased from 32 to 35 years in men and from 35 to 39 years in women during this period . |
| 20 | In the next five years ( 1928–32 ) the crude death-rate of the transferred population increased from 18.75 to 26.71 per 1,000 , and by way of explanation M'Gonigle and Kirby observe : ‘ It is difficult to come to any other conclusion than that the increased mortality was associated with the dietary deficiencies ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 129 ) . |
| 21 | The daily average population surged from 12,915 in 1944 to over 17,000 in 1947 , compared with pre-war prison population figures in the range between 10,000 and 11,000 . |
| 22 | This was particularly important in a country like Britain whose population grew from 17,900,000 in 1851 to 36,000,000 in 1911 , the majority living in towns and cities . |
| 23 | The River Chelt flowed to the south of the town , but during the great population explosion between 1800 and the mid-1820s ( the population grew from 3,000 to over 20,000 ) , the built up area gradually encroached on the empty fields and spread towards it . |
| 24 | The first exhibition to be held at the newly reopened Musée national des Monuments français , Paris ( see p. 14 ) is devoted to the artistic life , architecture and urbanism of the city from 1830 to 1914 , a period during which the city 's population grew from 130,000 to more than 500,000 . |
| 25 | Worcester 's population doubled from 4,000 to 8,000 between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-seventeenth century , a rise that is explained equally by natural increase and by immigration . |