Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1851 and 1861 , for example , in 821 rural parishes covered by the investigation the population had increased from 305567 to 322064 , while the number of houses had fallen from 69225 to 66109 . |
| 2 | Whereas the national monthly output of iron-ore had sunk from 45.87 million pudy in 1913 to 0.98 by September 1922 , and cast-iron from 21.43 to 0.94 , flax yarn had only sunk from 0.236 to 0.104 . |
| 3 | Here is an area where the balance of advantage has changed since 1979 , from union leaders to employers and managers and from the consultative role granted to the unions to one in which they are virtually ignored by the government . |
| 4 | And by 1921 the population of Moscow had declined by one half and that of Petrograd by two-thirds . |
| 5 | The number of shareholders has risen from 7 per cent to 24 per cent of the adult population . |
| 6 | In the UK , the number of reported cases of AIDS has risen to 7045 — up 116 from December 1992 figures . |
| 7 | The process of revision had begun in 1986 . |
| 8 | The $18,000,000 sale marked the second failure of a commercial bank in the US capital within the past year , the National Bank of Washington having collapsed in 1990 . |
| 9 | The number of trusts has grown from 493 in 1980 to 1379 in 1989 , with many commentators predicting a certain degree of rationalisation in the 1990's , although there is no evidence of this as yet . |
| 10 | All 23 single attacks of pouchitis have responded within three days of treatment with metronidazole orally . |
| 11 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 12 | The amount of benefit paid increased from 18 million pounds in 1983 to about 1,000 million pounds in 1989 . |
| 13 | A recent report on fish retailing , compiled by the market research company Keynote , records the number of wet fish shops in the south of England having declined by 60 per cent in 27 years . |
| 14 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 15 | By 1988 the total number of countries had risen to 129 , split into 39 low-income , 34 lower-middle , 24 upper-middle , 4 high-income oil exporters , 19 industrial market , and 9 centrally-planned economies , renamed ‘ nonreporting nonmembers ’ ( aptly , as there was . |
| 16 | By 1881 the population of Britain — not including Ireland — had increased to 29.7 million , whereas that of Ireland had decreased to 5.2 million , compared to 6.6 million in 1851 . |
| 17 | On April 8 the governor of the south-eastern region , Hayri Kozacioglu , estimated that the total number of refugees had risen to 400,000 . |
| 18 | The number of Indians had dropped from 51 per cent to 46.4 per cent of the population , while Melanesians made up 48.4 per cent with other races making up the remainder . |
| 19 | Aided by substantial tax relief on house mortgages , the proportion of owner-occupiers had risen from 29.5 per cent of dwellings in 1951 to 52.8 per cent at the end of 1975 . |
| 20 | All bioremediation techniques involve using microorganisms to degrade the pollutants , and the use of microorganisms has emerged as one of the most promising technologies for treating contaminated groundwater . |
| 21 | Britain 's pre-war rate of divorce had quadrupled from 8,000 to 32,000 . |
| 22 | The workforce meanwhile had risen by 2.17 million and the numbers out of work has risen by 2.3 million . |
| 23 | According to a Labour Par a Labour Party survey based on information from Scotland 's job centres , eighteen to twenty few twenty four year old out of work has risen by twenty eight percent since nineteen ninety . |
| 24 | The number of Directors had fallen from 3 to none and that of District Surveyors from 4 to 2 . |
| 25 | The number of Visitors had dwindled to three — the Rector ( the Rev. C. K. Prescot ) , Mr. P. E. Marsland ( the Mayor ) , and Mr. J. Marsland ( the last two being Old Boys of the School ) . |
| 26 | Total emissions of lead have plummeted from 127,900 tonnes in 1978 to 7200 tonnes in 1989 ( figure 8.12 ; table 8.5 ) . |
| 27 | Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent . |
| 28 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 29 | Four inches of rain have fallen in four days in the south-west , making it the region 's soggiest November since 1940 and Britain 's wettest autumn since 1984 . |
| 30 | As annual consumption of wine has risen from five to 11 litres per head in the decade between 1977 and 1987 , the high-street off-licence has seen a golden opportunity snatched from under its nose by the supermarkets . |