Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the machines have been overwhelmed since the 1960s , not least by the impact of mass media and by demographic upheaval : New York 's non-Hispanic white population dropped from 77% of the total to 43% between 1960 and 1990 . |
| 2 | Farm income slumped from 16% of national income in 1919 to 9% in 1929 . |
| 3 | Work out the measurements of five more rectangles which can be made from 64cm of string and put your answers in the table shown below . |
| 4 | One indication of the importance of state pensions in increasing the financial security and independence of the bulk of the British population can be drawn from statistics of wealth distribution in England and Wales collected for the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth . |
| 5 | The amount of extract in each lane corresponds to that produced from 3ml of induced bacterial culture . |
| 6 | UP to £100,000 for homeless people could be raised from sales of a compilation album featuring pop giants Phil Collins and Annie Lennox . |
| 7 | The excess has been altered from 2% of the building value of 1% where accidental damage cover is included to a fixed sum of £1,000 each and every claim . |
| 8 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 9 | Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now . |
| 10 | Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 . |
| 11 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 12 | Royalties yet to be received from sales of The Shamen 's limited-edition FACE EP , which has sold out , will go towards paying off our own legal bills . |
| 13 | But much can be inferred from statistics of births in any year to women who already have 0 , 1 , 2 , etc. children ( figure 4.13 ) . |
| 14 | On April 30 a television programme had claimed that the Labour Party had hosted secret fund-raising dinners for prominent business executives , that certain companies had made significant secret contributions to the party 's campaign fund , and that these had subsequently profited from sales of state assets . |
| 15 | Of Britain 's £700 million share , just over £140 million has been repaid from sales of the A320 , with the A330 and A340 about to go into production . |