Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As political life became dominated by people who were in it as a career , the shires felt betrayed . |
| 2 | Manufacturers ' rate of return on capital has jumped from 2% to 10% . |
| 3 | As a result , Asia 's share in world output has jumped from 7% to 18% . |
| 4 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 5 | Canaletto has shot up to £8–10 million , which seems high even considering the undisputed quality of the painting , while the Rembrandt has plunged to £5 million . |
| 6 | Over the last five years criminal legal aid has soared from £25 million to £47 million while advice and assistance has gone up from £5.9 million to £15.4 million . |
| 7 | Shares in the quoted radio stocks in 1988 outperformed the market by 100 per cent , and since March 1987 , the sector 's market value has soared from £33m to over £400m . |
| 8 | The Times claims its circulation has soared by 20pc since it launched the circulation war on Monday . |
| 9 | He expects profits this year of £135m and has pencilled in £150m for next year . |
| 10 | With McGrath banned and David O'Leary injured there is no familiar centre-half cover and Charlton has pencilled in £3.75 million Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane as an emergency defender if things go wrong . |
| 11 | Now that share has fallen to 42% . |
| 12 | The ‘ official rate ’ of interest has fallen to 9% with effect from 6 December 1992 . |
| 13 | Its public debt has fallen to 111% of GDP from a peak of 131% in 1987 , but this is still the second highest ( behind Belgium ) of any industrial economy . |
| 14 | On a 25-year traditional with-profits endowment policy taken out by a man aged 29 with monthly premiums of £30 , the maturity pay-out has fallen from £61,505 a year ago to £58,754 now . |
| 15 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 16 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 17 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 18 | At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% . |
| 19 | In England and Wales , the sex ratio at birth has fallen from 106.3in 1971–5 to 104.8in 1988 ( Shaw 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |
| 21 | Because of the increased efficiency of our exploration programme , our spending on this activity has fallen from £744 million in 1990 to £xxx million in 1992 . |
| 22 | The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect . |
| 23 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 24 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 25 | Yet the downward trend has started ; and a Burmese economic expert reckons that last month the cost of living figure has fallen from 800% above pre-war level to 600% . |
| 26 | The number of manufacturing jobs has fallen by 11% and now stands at about 5m . |
| 27 | Will the Minister confirm that in the Prime Minister 's first year , far from escaping from short-termism , 45,000 businesses have gone under , 70,000 homes have been repossessed , 700,000 more people have lost their jobs and manufacturing investment has fallen by £2 billion this year and , according to the CBI , will fall by another £400 million even in 1992 ? |
| 28 | The level of graduate recruitment among the top eight accountancy firms has fallen by 9% over the past year , according to a survey of firms carried out by ACCOUNTANCY ( see table below ) . |
| 29 | They were asked to outline what their parties aimed to do to boost the average income of farmers , which has fallen by 18pc to the lowest level since the 1939–1945 War . |
| 30 | Malaysia 's competitiveness has increased most since 1986 ; its real effective exchange rate has fallen by 12% . |