Example sentences of "[verb] from [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders benefit from a dividend total lifted from 18.8p in 1991 to 19.1p , after a final of 12.9p , but holders of L&G investment policies will not do so well . |
| 2 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 3 | Thailand 's GDP per head , for example , is lifted from $1,780 to $1,580 . |
| 4 | With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 . |
| 5 | The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 . |
| 6 | Property price inflation lifted turnover and operating profits , but costs also increased steeply , with interest charges leaping from £1.236m to £3.94m , reducing the pre-tax result . |
| 7 | The rewards are just beginning to come through with Mercury 's contribution to C&W trading profit leaping from £4million to £14million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 8 | She said that the complaints had come from people on the same estate who were ‘ really quite close ’ to the former rectory . |
| 9 | BET , which deals in laundry to plant hire , saw its half-year profits slump from £71.5m to £40.5m and has slashed its interim dividend from 4.25p to 2p to conserve cash . |
| 10 | However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income . |
| 11 | When asset sales are excluded , earnings per share rose from 3.4p to 5p , a 47pc increase . |
| 12 | While there appears to be no immediate threat to Curtis 's position , there is friction between himself and Robins over the size of his income , which rose from £138,000 in the previous year . |
| 13 | In Canada , where premium income rose from $96.1m to $139.8m following the acquisition of the general insurance business of the Prudential Corporation , the deficit for the quarter was up from $2.9m to $11.8m — a relatively satisfactory performance in difficult market conditions . |
| 14 | Turnover climbed from £187.2 million to £204.5 million , while earnings per share rose from 5.8p to 6.5p . |
| 15 | When the syntactic component was switched off , the error rate rose from 4% to 30% . |
| 16 | Of unmarried women who became pregnant , the proportion who married the father before the baby was born fell from 40% in 1970 to 11% in 1988 , whereas the proportion of pregnancies terminated by abortion rose from 24% to 37% . |
| 17 | Their net confidence rose from 24% to 46% . |
| 18 | turnover rose from £947.8m in 1990 to £968m . |
| 19 | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company reported that first half profit before tax rose from £73.1m to £101.1m . |
| 20 | Ecu bonds rose from 5% to 10% . |
| 21 | By April 1989 price controls started to crumble and monthly inflation rose from 5% in March 1989 to 73% this February . |
| 22 | Average plot prices rose from £908 in 1970 to £2676 in 1973 . |
| 23 | Third quarter replacement cost profit rose from £129m to £172m at British Petroleum , and rose by 58% to £824m at Royal Dutch/Shell Group . |
| 24 | The proportion of women having just two children , for example , rose from 28% for the 1920s generation to 43% for those born in 1945 . |
| 25 | Tipping fees at New York city 's only landfill , Fresh Kills , rose from $10 to $150 a ton between October 1991 and July 1992 ; in northern New Jersey , tipping fees have shown a similar increase . |
| 26 | Losses before tax rose from £47.9m to £146.4m in the year to 30 September 1992 at National Home Loans . |
| 27 | European profits rose from £30m to £42m . |
| 28 | First half profit before tax rose from £43.75m to £47.07m at Tomkins in spite of sales falling by 3.2% to £575.5m . |
| 29 | Earnings per share in the third quarter rose from 17.4p to 18.77p and for the nine months from 45.82p to 48.84p . |
| 30 | Earnings per share in the third quarter rose from 17.4p to 18.77p and for the nine months from 45.82p to 48.84p . |