Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent . |
| 2 | In many cases the amount of section measured was considerably less than 500 ft ( 150 m ) with the average being 216 ft ( 63 m ) ; numbers of mean values used varied from two to six and in 27 cases only one value could be utilised . |
| 3 | One year a number of musical instruments were incorporated and visitors enjoyed spotting them , the numbers they found varied from fourteen to twenty-one . |
| 4 | The business of environmental consultancy has evolved rapidly over the past decade , with the number of UK firms involved jumping from 100 to 225 over the past couple of years alone . |
| 5 | erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there , |
| 6 | The average brood size noted ranged from 3.6 to 7.7 , with a mean of 5.2 , but the number finally reared was often much less ; the few figures available indicate a predation rate of up to 40 per cent. , sometimes more . |
| 7 | He 'd , he 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 8 | He 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 9 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 10 | We 'd worked from 6.30 a.m. until 8.00 p.m. with the shortest of breaks during the day . |
| 11 | No one could identify the problem — indeed , the symptoms varied considerably and seemed to travel from one part of her body to another . |
| 12 | The amount of benefit paid increased from 18 million pounds in 1983 to about 1,000 million pounds in 1989 . |
| 13 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 14 | Open Islamic expression began to revive from 1978 . |
| 15 | The total populations served ranged from 100,000 in the case of Bassetlaw to 370,000 in South Nottingham . |
| 16 | Well , I went with a friend from university and we both enjoyed walking and in particular we enjoyed walking from one place to another place , and last summer was the only last long break either of us would ever really have and erm |
| 17 | Cardiff pushed past Rohmer and Gilbert to join him , and they both watched as the elevator light above the main double-doors began to descend from fourteen . |
| 18 | Betty Leeds began to hop from one foot to another , a sure sign of-agitation . |
| 19 | ( We hear of farmers alarmed to learn from 1 Cor. 9 : 9 that ‘ oxen are of no concern to God ’ . ) |
| 20 | After the stability of prices in the later nineteenth century , prices of essential goods began to rise from 1902 causing decline in real wages until 1914 . |
| 21 | He began to step from one foot to the other , more like a boxer than ever . |
| 22 | At the same time the Italian government undertook to reduce from 6 to 2.25 per cent the margin either side of the central rate by which the lira 's exchange rate was allowed to fluctuate . |
| 23 | She started to hop from one foot to the other . |
| 24 | When caesarean births were excluded the proportion of women shaved decreased from 552/1317 ( 42% ) in 1984 to 21/1269 ( 2% ) in 1989 ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 25 | So , her mother started working from three patterns — one each for the bodice , skirt and train ! |
| 26 | With candlelight the day could be stretched from 5 a.m to 7 p.m. in winter , and in summer daylight permitted working from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m . |
| 27 | Sugar consumption fell from 31 lbs/head in 1805 to 18 in 1833 , but it started to rise from 1845 as did consumption of tea . |
| 28 | The speed at which an awareness of national fashions in architecture grew varied from one area to another . |
| 29 | She was carrying a bag of shopping that she kept moving from one hand to the other . |
| 30 | We separated private manufacturing and private service establishments where they appeared to differ from one another . |