Example sentences of "[n mass] come from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 24-month experiment the crew produced 80% of its own food , the other 20% coming from seed stock and crops grown and stored in the biosphere before its closure . |
| 2 | Revenues generated from VAXes grew 22% to £11.1m , and although Turner said that licence sales ‘ have really slowed ’ because people are n't buying the machines much any more , a high proportion of the £11.1m came from maintenance and services to the group 's existing 500 or so VAX customers . |
| 3 | In 1989 , 80% of the income of households with weekly incomes of below £45 came from state benefits , with 2% from wages and salaries . |
| 4 | Now the amount received does n't look so wonderful with £600 coming from the regular saving and the measly £97.70 coming from interest earned . |
| 5 | Earnings were 14p for the quarter , just under 1p coming from currency changes , taking the running total for nine months to 39.4p net a share , against 32.3p . |
| 6 | BSkyB ( Sky Television ) is firmly in the black and the 50%-owned satellite venture now has weekly revenues of more than £6m , with 80% coming from pay service subscriptions . |
| 7 | If an analysis was carried out , you will see that as far as religion is concerned , there is a 50–50 ratio , although 80 of people come from West Belfast itself . |
| 8 | People come from East and West in caravan after caravan just to look at it . ’ |
| 9 | More than 60% of AT&T 's $36 billion of sales comes from telephone calls , the remainder from sales of telephone equipment — the big computer-like switches that work telephone exchanges , and the smaller ones , called PABXs , that offices use to route calls internally . |
| 10 | This reliance on the state demonstrates the impact of exclusion from the labour market — only 9 per cent of the total income of older people comes from employment . |
| 11 | From 1989-90 to 1993-94 , reserves are forecast to increase by just £7m , of which £4m comes from capital revenue ( ie , disposal of assets ) . |