Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of economic support given from one migrant to the next includes : assistance with the fare ; assistance in finding work ; a temporary home ; personal encouragement and moral support whilst the new migrant is adjusting to Britain . |
| 2 | Ahead of you as you walk along the length of the piazza is the Casa del Manzoni , Manzoni 's house , a fine nineteenth century building in which the writer lived from 1813 until his death on 22 May 1873 . |
| 3 | At the 28th such board meeting , in February 1989 , the age of those present ranged from 26 to 49 , with an average age of 37 . |
| 4 | In France the cabinet du ministre in the foreign ministry included from 1886 , under a number of slightly varying titles , a section which translated and analysed articles from the foreign press : by 1907 it was drawing on 175 newspapers for this purpose . |
| 5 | But in the very early 1970s the dangers of infantile obesity and dehydration were well publicized and the rate of tiny babies in Sheffield being fed unmodified milk powder dropped from 90 per cent to 0 per cent . |
| 6 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 7 | Similarly the Fine Gael/Labour opposition vote fell from 51.1 in 1969 to 48.8 in 1973 , whilst its PS rose from 47.2 to 51.1 . |
| 8 | The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level . |
| 9 | The wastes that go down the drain come from two main sources , the textiles themselves and the residues of chemicals employed in treating them . |
| 10 | Between 1967 and 1977 the number of American executive appointments in which headhunters played a part quadrupled from 4000 to 16000 per year . |
| 11 | ( In the same period , the FT-SE 100 index rose from 1,713 to 2,715 . ) |
| 12 | For low-income families , the urban consumer price index rose from 203 in 1980 to 733 in 1986 ; for the high-income group the figures were respectively 189 and 644 . |
| 13 | Regular smoking ranged from 1 per cent of 10 year olds to 30 per cent of 15 year olds . |
| 14 | The ratio of per capita debt to per capita income rose from 19.7 in 1973 to a record high of 162.7 in 1985/86 . |
| 15 | What I do find unacceptable is the noise emitted from two particular types of machinery . |
| 16 | In 1950 , the index ranged from 36 for Guatemala to 77 for Argentina , but by the mid 1970s , it had risen to a range of 43 for Bolivia and 90 for Puerto Rico ( Felix 1983 ) . |
| 17 | Moores , Weiss and Goodwin ( 1973 ) similarly found comprehension to increase from 61 per cent to 71 per cent with the addition of signing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | CONGRATULATIONS to Chris Reiter from Foster Wheeler Wood Group , who was the lucky winner picked from dozens of correct entries for the Christmas crossword competition . |
| 20 | There were two large vegetable dishes with lids on in the centre of the table and , beyond them , on an oval plate , was a roasted chicken , brown and shiny with stuffing oozing from one end . |
| 21 | Thus in four the serum cholesterol ranged from 8.9 to 9.7 mmol/l ( normal <8.5 ) ; in five the serum triglyceride concentrations were raised at 2.4–3.6 mmol/l ( normal <2.2 ) whilte in three thre was mixed hyperlipidaemia . |
| 22 | The observation that the period of the sleep/wake rhythm differs from 24 hours is important because it indicates that environmental cues can not have been responsible . |
| 23 | The necessary points came in the shape of three halved games , with Andrew Hare recovering from two down with two to play and Jim Milligan , playing Jay Sigel in the anchor match , was two down and three to play . |
| 24 | He upended each of them in turn and allowed himself a grim little smile of satisfaction when a squirming scorpion tumbled from one of them . |
| 25 | Consequently the rate of babies above the fiftieth centile in weight dropped from 79 per cent to 43 per cent ( Taitz 1971 ; 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 27 | In the late fourteenth century , between 1371 and 1401 when rural rents were declining , the number of tenements owned by the vicars-choral of the Minster increased from 183 to 238 , and the average rent rose from 6.7 to 7.1s. , an increase of just under 6 per cent . |
| 28 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
| 29 | Their age at interview varied from 17 to 36 , giving an average age of about 24 for both females and males . |
| 30 | When he looked at it , there was blood oozing from two split knuckles . |