Example sentences of "[verb] from [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restriction orders were also lifted from five of U Nu 's associates . |
| 2 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 3 | I S Tummon and David Mortimer suggest that our finding may be due simply to changes in methods of pipetting from 1940 to 1990 . |
| 4 | The CNAA 's preoccupation was with future arrangements regarding proposals for combined courses in technology and art and design , but the question of possible amalgamation was bypassed , not to be reopened from 1966 until the early 1970s . |
| 5 | But by then , the show-down had come from one of support for the clergyman to one of outright resistance to the regime . |
| 6 | This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods . |
| 7 | I had the impression — fleeting , I grant you — that the photo had come from one of the pockets . |
| 8 | That would have set them a puzzle , would n't it , if the fibres had come from one of them ? ’ |
| 9 | I think that 's that absolutely horrific and that has come from one of the practice partners and not the actual himself . |
| 10 | Under Labour his top tax rate would jump from 40 to 49 per cent , and his overall tax bill would go up by about £1,080 a year , essentially because of increased national insurance . |
| 11 | Prior to the launch of Compaq 's DeskPro/M series he upgraded from 286s to 386SX computers by shuffling the older machines on to secretaries ' desks . |
| 12 | Between 1973 and 1985 the proportion of women working outside the home rose from 56 to 63 per cent . |
| 13 | Between 1831 and 1870 the number of inhabitants rose from 833,000 to 2,000,000 , an increase due mainly to immigration from the provinces , for within the city marriages were few and late . |
| 14 | Its population rose from 729 in 1801 to 2,602 in 1891 . |
| 15 | For example , in the twelve years between 1969 and 1981 , the number of students on full-time and sandwich courses in Welsh establishments rose from 12,390 to 25,377 , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 16 | Cases of CJD rose from 32 in 1990/91 to 48 in 1992/93 but the rise " is not statistically significant " and reflects " inevitable fluctuations from year to year " , say researchers at the national CJD surveillance unit in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 18 | For example , between 1970 and 1982 the ratio of women to men achieving two or more A-levels rose steadily from 75:100 to 95:100 and the corresponding ratio for university entrants rose from 40:100 to 70:100 . |
| 19 | The Sheikha rose from one of the couches to greet me . |
| 20 | The number of radio licences rose from two to eight million between 1926 and 1939 with 71 per cent of all households having a wireless by the Second World War . |
| 21 | According to the census of 1851 , nearly one quarter of all women over 30 were unmarried ; between 1851 and 1871 the number of single females above the age of 15 rose from 2,765,000 to 3,229,000 . |
| 22 | Fewer students were prepared to undertake the commitment to submit written work on a regular basis , or to study over long periods , and although the number of Article 24(a) Tutorial Classes rose from fourteen in 1947–48 to thirty in 1951–52 as a direct result of the District 's programme for action , the totals for Article 24(b) Sessional classes declined from forty-one to thirty-two over the same period . |
| 23 | Such compromises and concessions , necessary for maintaining consensual politics , exacerbated the economic pressures ; for example , the growth of social provision and the socialization of the losses of large sectors of private capital through nationalization ( see chapter 3 ) was reflected in a rapid rise in public expenditure from 25.0 per cent of GDP in 1975 to 35.4 per cent in 1982 ( Donges 1984 : 111 ) ; the public sector deficit rose from zero to 5.9 per cent of GDP over the same period . |
| 24 | In early days the judiciary greatly encouraged litigants to use it and the number of civil applications rose from 356 in 1981 to 1580 in 1989 , the House of Lords having ruled in 1983 that those seeking redress for an infringement of public law rights must proceed by way of this remedy only . |
| 25 | Between 1921 and 1931 the German population of the Corridor fell from 177,942 to 109,696 , while the Polish population rose from 935,643 to 1,080,100 . |
| 26 | These figures need to be considered within the context of Cheshire as a whole , which rose from 866,556 in 1971 to 926,293 in 1981 . |
| 27 | The number of repossessed properties rose from 6,000 in 1982 to 23,000 in 1987 , though in 1988 the figure dropped to around 13,800 . |
| 28 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 29 | Mr Shaw said oil production rose from 9,290 to almost 11,000 barrels a day . |
| 30 | The vast increase in the number of servants living in households in England and Wales ( which rose from 847,000 in 1851 to 1.3 million in 1881 ; the number of general female servants rose by 33 per cent ) also provided new opportunities for sexual exploitation . |