Example sentences of "[adv] from [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's how to create delicious last-minute meals entirely from standbys in the store cupboard . |
| 2 | In this framework , inequality in lifetime income arises basically from differences in endowments . |
| 3 | Down from £12.8m in 1990 to £7.9m last year , while turnover fell from £120m to £113m . |
| 4 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 5 | Many forecasters expect France 's economy to grow by only 1.5% in 1991 , down from 4% in both 1988 and 1989 and from an estimated 2.6% last year . |
| 6 | James , who journeyed down from Scotland in 1603 to take up his new positions as English monarch and supreme governor of the English church , was firmly committed to Calvinist theology and was to take a very active interest in the ecclesiastical affairs of his new kingdom . |
| 7 | Development costs are its largest outlay totalling $11.7m in 1991 , down from $22.4m in 1989 . |
| 8 | However , dependence on oil has fallen : its share of energy consumption is now just over 40% , down from 47% in 1973 . |
| 9 | Britain 's prime-lending rate was cut by 0.5% shortly after the budget , to 13.5% , down from 15% in February . |
| 10 | Margin over purchased feed was £70.20 a cow and MOPF a litre down from 13.96p in April to 13.39p/litre in May . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I drove almost two hundred miles down from Lisboa in order to visit whoever it was who owned this house . ’ |
| 12 | Deputising services undertook relatively fewer visits in 1990–1 — at 28% , the proportion was down from 46% in 1989–90 , the last year of the old contract . |
| 13 | Lower reorganisation and redundancy charges , down from £15.4m in 1992 to £3.5m this year , and reduced research and development costs , down £2.6m to £47.7m , also helped to offset pressure on pricing and higher depreciation charges . |
| 14 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |
| 15 | You know , the ones where the killer cauliflower or the deadly cucumber or whatever comes down from Venus in a spaceship and proceeds to devour everybody in sight . ’ |
| 16 | Genius is Wordsworth peering down from Snowdon in the mist . |
| 17 | However , speciality chemicals turned in poor profits of £35m , down from £54m in 1990 , the colour and surfactant markets deteriorated , while consumer effect businesses weathered the economic cycle well . |
| 18 | Investment in start-ups and in early stage developments has been particularly badly hit , down from £128m in 1990 to just £58m last year . |
| 19 | Britain 's second largest building society made £184.6m in the year to April 4 , down from £201.9m in the previous 12 months . |
| 20 | There was a satisfactory first quarter result in the US where the underwriting deficit for the period was down from $41.2m in sterling terms to $38.2m , with an overall improvement in the operating ratio of just over one point . |
| 21 | For that reason , Sir Adrian looks back with gratitude on the job-rotation policy that was an integral part of basic training when he joined the family firm after coming down from Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 22 | He came down from Cambridge in 1888 , and without either great enthusiasm or great reluctance went into the family business . |
| 23 | Growth in the volume of world merchandise trade slowed last year to 5% , down from 7% in 1989 . |
| 24 | In the early eighteenth century the Piggot family decided to modernize their humble and rambling seventeenth-century manor and called in the best local builder , perhaps from Stanford in the Vale , a rather grand village displaying much architectural refinement . |
| 25 | Some of the foregoing have survived to the present day — Pyneford ( Pineford ) , Langlay ( Langley ) , North , le Bret ( Bret and Brett ) , whose meanings are obvious , Piket ( Picot , Pykett , Piggott , etc. , from the Old French personal name Pic ) , Bekeford ( Beckford , from the Middle English bekke = brook , and ford ) , de Reyney ( Rainey , etc. , perhaps from Regny in the Loire ) , Keneman ( Kinman , from cyna = cow , and mann , thus a herdsman ) . |
| 26 | He was compelled to accept the ‘ nationalist ’ Vietnamese who now came in from China in a United Front government . |
| 27 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 28 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 29 | During 1980 Boeing E75 ( N2S-5 ) Kaydet G-THEA arrived from the USA and Morane MS.733 Alcyon G-SHOW came in from France in 1981 . |
| 30 | Well let mummy fasten your shoes first and Grant 'll be in from school in a few minutes . |