Example sentences of "[verb] from [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Import tariffs would be lifted from 170 classes of products . |
| 2 | The initial impetus to the Coordinating Team 's invitation to the school to participate in the project seems to have come from two sources . |
| 3 | The two sets of girls might just have well come from two countries at war . |
| 4 | Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis . |
| 5 | The money for the suite has come from three sources — £35,000 under the Technology Enhancement Programme ( TEP ) organised by the Engineering Council , £20,000 from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation ( the Sainsbury family ) , and £15,000 from Stockport Council . |
| 6 | Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants . |
| 7 | Boyden worldwide has become stronger , with revenues of $34.6m. earned from 1150 searches by 100 consultants ; this may lead to an increased presence in the British market . |
| 8 | The area of permanent grassland during the same period rose from 8,070 hectares to 9,391 hectares ( a 16% rise ) . |
| 9 | Life expectancy for men rose from 70.8 years in 1981 to 73.2 years in 1991 , and for women from 76.8 to 78.8 years . |
| 10 | Instead expectation of life rose from 36.8 years in 1796–1800 to 40.2 in 1836–40 ( Wrigley and Schofield 1981 ) ; these correspond to CDRs of 25.1 and 21.7 respectively . |
| 11 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 12 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |
| 13 | American car output rose from 4000 cars per annum in 1900 to 4 800 000 in 1929 . |
| 14 | Small wonder that the Krupp works in Essen rose from seventy-two workers in 1848 to almost 12,000 in 1873 , or that Schneider in France had multiplied to 12,500 in 1870 , so that more than half the population of the town of Creusot worked in their blast furnaces , rolling-mills , power-hammers and engineering workshops . |
| 15 | Production rose from 153 films in 1932 to 212 in 1936 , and the returns were insufficient to justify such expansion . |
| 16 | Ascitic fluid was aspirated from 10 patients ( nine men , one woman ; age range 37–62 years ) with alcohol induced ascites and 10 patients ( four men , six women ; age range 31–85 years ) with sytologically confirmed malignant ascites ( six ovarian ; one oesophageal ; two stomach , and one colonic carcinoma ) . |
| 17 | Duration of symptoms varied from two months to 15 years . |
| 18 | Thus the time spent on the physical abuse referrals varied from 30 minutes to 20 hours . |
| 19 | In the river valleys and levels breeding densities varied from 25 pairs per 2,500 acres ( 10 sq . |
| 20 | The mean time since injury varied from 2–13 years ( mean 4.4 ) . |
| 21 | Each eye is about a centimetre across and is packed with up to 4 million light receptors , lit through an opening which can be varied from 3 millimetres down to a tiny 0.4 millimetres . |
| 22 | Direct drive stepping motors eliminate backlash and speed can be varied from 50-5000 microns per second with a focus resolution of 0.5 microns for precise control . |
| 23 | The sessions varied from ninety minutes to whole day programmes . |
| 24 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 25 | Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four . |
| 26 | For instance , the playing time per hour at Wimbledon has dropped from 7.18 minutes in the 1970's to 3.55 minutes , whereas at the US Open , which used to be played on grass , it has actually gone up slightly from 8.14 minutes to 8.18 minutes . |
| 27 | Per capita consumption of whale meat has dropped from 2 kilograms in 1960 to 0–63 kg in 1978 . |
| 28 | For CFC-12 the growth rate dropped from 20 parts per trillion to 11 . |
| 29 | The MIS-2ES has from two-to-four CPUs , 256Mb of memory , and 48Gb of disk — and costs £72,000 . |
| 30 | To increase from three weeks to six weeks , and I believe it 's important to respond to district and borough councils when we 're trying to co-operate with them . |