Example sentences of "[adv prt] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down from £12.8m in 1990 to £7.9m last year , while turnover fell from £120m to £113m . |
| 2 | Dry , roasted peanuts are down from £1.09 to 99p . |
| 3 | These genes are duplicated along with the chromosomes at each cell division and can be passed down from parents to their offspring . |
| 4 | Although there was a marked improvement at the operating level , bad debt provisions of £401m , up from £351m , pushed year-end profits down from £58m to £21m . |
| 5 | Laura came down from London on the long-distance bus . |
| 6 | ‘ We shall get our friends down from London with the fish . ’ |
| 7 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 8 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 9 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |
| 10 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 11 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 12 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 13 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 14 | A BMW 316 four-door saloon is down from £15,150 to Pounds 14,544 . |
| 15 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Brian Seymour 's crew brought her down from Scotland for the royal occasion and my crew joined at Southampton to put the final touches on the paint and brightwork . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 19 | Bill , who flew down from Scotland with other representatives of Scottish tennis for the funeral , was justly proud of what Winnie went on to achieve . |
| 20 | And Dorothy 's bringing granny Iris back down from Scotland with her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 23 | Development costs are its largest outlay totalling $11.7m in 1991 , down from $22.4m in 1989 . |
| 24 | Traditional pork sausages are down from £1.89 to £1.59 . |
| 25 | However , dependence on oil has fallen : its share of energy consumption is now just over 40% , down from 47% in 1973 . |
| 26 | Losses in Australia , where there was some reserve strengthening during the year , were down from $22.1m to $12.9m following another good result in the fourth quarter . |
| 27 | Deficit down from $10.7m to $9.8m losses in France of $6.7m . |
| 28 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 29 | Twice a week a Second Secretary accompanied by a High Commission security officer had driven down from Nairobi with a gutted digest of the Service 's affairs telexed from London . |
| 30 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |