Example sentences of "had risen [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death toll in the Algiers airport bombing on Aug. 26 [ see p. 39072 ] had risen to 10 by Sept. 1 , with 128 people wounded . |
| 2 | Since the beginning of the war Serbian forces seem to have targeted the artistic and cultural heritage and the number of monuments destroyed had risen to 529 by February . |
| 3 | The number of Soviet Jews entering Israel had risen to 13,000 during 1989 , largely as a result of a relaxation of Soviet emigration policies . |
| 4 | The numbers of mentally handicapped people in long-stay hospitals had risen to 50–60,000 by 1948 , when the National Health Service was founded . |
| 5 | Whereas only 146 households out of 775 had lacked any horses , the number had risen to 175 by 1922 . |
| 6 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 7 | The fifty-eight separate surnames recorded in Willingham in 1575 had risen to ninety by the 1720s , but only a hard core of twenty-two families remained . |
| 8 | In 1983 , this had risen to 2,500 in 1985 , 8,000 candidates registered ; and in 1987 , an estimated 26,000 people applied ( GMRB 22. 2. 1988 ) . |
| 9 | On an index scale based at 100 in 1975 , the average sale price for a freehouse and inn had risen by 1989 to 622 , but since then the index average has fallen to 521 ( 1991 ) . |
| 10 | From the start of this service in 1949 , when 1,591 people were transported by sea plane , the numbers had risen by 1958 to 8,713 passengers . |
| 11 | These had risen by 70,000 in the month from mid-August , and Mr Murdoch said the group was likely to reach the target of one million homes by 1 February 1990 . |
| 12 | The news came after figures showed the unemployed in Darlington had risen by 113 to 5,342 . |
| 13 | Sleaford was described as a flourishing and important market town that had been ‘ much improved and beautified during the present century ’ ; its population had risen from 1,483 to 3,372 between 1801 and 1851 . |
| 14 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 15 | Since 1967 the number of women in public sector schemes had nearly doubled from I to 2 million , while the number of women in private schemes had risen from 1.3 to 1.4 million . |
| 16 | Between May 1979 , when the Conservatives came into office , and January 1988 their strength in England and Wales had risen from 109,998 to 122,131 , an increase of 11 per cent . |
| 17 | The report also pointed out that the average life expectancy in the developing world had risen from 46 to 62 in the period 1962-87 , while infant mortality had dropped by 50 per cent . |
| 18 | In total the number of summertime schemes had risen from five in 1982 to twenty by the end of the period . |
| 19 | The number of workers involved in strikes had risen from 225,000 in May to 1,000,000 in May and to 1,500,000 in June . |
| 20 | They found the incidence per 100,000 of the population had risen from 3.4 in 1979 to 7.1 in 1989 for men , and from 6.6 to 10.4 for women . |
| 21 | Under proportional representation — the rule of all other EC member states — the British Greens would have been the largest national group in the Strasbourg Green firmament , where the number of those who regarded themselves as in some way Green had risen from 11 to 43 . |
| 22 | And , most important of all , the number of states using primary elections to select delegates to the convention had risen from 17 in 1968 to 29 in 1976 , with the number of votes cast by delegates chosen or bound by primaries increasing from 37.5 per cent to 72.6 per cent . |
| 23 | The average circulation of the Daily Worker had risen from 30,000 to 70,000 in the same period , while at weekends and on special occasions sales of over 100,000 had been achieved . |
| 24 | Unemployment had risen from 80,000 to 400,000 over the previous 12 months and was expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 1992 . |
| 25 | By 1984 the number of airlines had risen from 36 to 120 , fares were down 30 per cent , and passengers use was up 50 per cent . |
| 26 | Seizures had risen from 12 in 1987 to 27 last year to 124 this year . |
| 27 | 3 weeks after the final treatment his neutrophil count had risen from 0.26 to 4.64×10/L and platelets from 5 to 308×10/L . |
| 28 | The total number of tenants had risen from 125 to 153 ; the number of wealthier farmers remained steady , but the poorer section had increased considerably . |
| 29 | Asylum applications within the EC had risen from 169,000 in 1988 to 327,000 in 1990 . |
| 30 | In the fifties university student numbers had risen from 135,000 in 1949 to 220,000 in 1960 . |