Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholders benefit from a dividend total lifted from 18.8p in 1991 to 19.1p , after a final of 12.9p , but holders of L&G investment policies will not do so well . |
| 2 | Response rates varied from 98% in 1968–70 to about 90% in subsequent five year spans . |
| 3 | Since the introduction of Medicare in 1984 the proportion of the population covered by private insurance has dropped from 62% in 1983 to 42% in 1992 , with a large decrease in coverage among young people . |
| 4 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 5 | In Britain , sales of long-players dropped from 107.2m in 1978 to 92.6m in 1980 . |
| 6 | Inflation dropped from 86% in 1988 to 50% in 1989 . |
| 7 | The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year . |
| 8 | The proportion of holidays of four nights and above between October and April has grown from 14% in 1976 to 22% last year , while August holidays have slipped from 24% to 20% and July from 25% to 18% . |
| 9 | The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The school funding debt has risen from £269,000 in 1989 to £1,896,000 this year . |
| 11 | First , because there are still far more betrayed women than men around : the percentage of wives playing away may have risen from 26% in the 50s to around 40% now , but a conservative estimate suggests that 60% of husbands have cheated at least once — and one US survey puts the figure as high as 82% . |
| 12 | As prosperity has grown — income per person has risen from $145 in 1951 to $10,215 in 1992 — the birth rate has fallen , from about 50 per 1,000 in 1951 to just over 15 per 1,000 in 1992 . |
| 13 | Sales revenue is estimated to have tumbled from $250m in 1989 to about $200m . |
| 14 | The total dividend is raised from 6.4p in 1991 to 7p after a final of 4.8p , though earnings per share dipped from 13.9p to 11.7p . |
| 15 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 16 | As we 've heard from people in this programme tonight , most of them start when they 're children or young adolescents |
| 17 | ( The shipping fares from Southampton to Singapore , which catered to a higher class of trade , had merely been reduced from £110 in the 1850s to £68 in the 1880s . |
| 18 | The software products arm improved sales by 2.3% to £38.8m , or the remaining 9.5% of turnover , but research and development spend in this area has been reduced from £14m in 1991 to £13.2m in 1992 as a result of the agreement with IBM . |
| 19 | But politicians always speak in terms of percentages and real terms so let's look at the total tax which was demanded from people in the city in the past few years . |
| 20 | Through our experience and knowledge derived from sales in the area we are able to ensure that you have the greatest chance of selling at the highest figure . |
| 21 | The second set of expected values also included an adjustment for smoking habit derived from data in our second control group — the Renfrew-Paisley study . |
| 22 | If you look at the trends in the incidence of mental confusion in residential homes ( all categories , that 's local authority , voluntary , private ) , it 's gone from 15% in 1980 by small stages until it reaches 24% in 1987 . |
| 23 | According to Verdict , a retail-industry analyst , the gross margin on fresh foods has increased from 21% in 1986 to 28% in 1990 . |
| 24 | Dividend per share has increased from 3.0p in 1980 to 15.8p in 1989 — a compound growth rate of 20% per annum . |
| 25 | The real net income of a married couple on average male earnings with two children has increased from £194 in 1978-79 to £262 in 1991-92 — a rise of 35 per cent . |
| 26 | Estimates of the proportion of patients with coeliac disease who present in their seventh decade or beyond have increased from 4% in 1960 to 27% in 1980 . |
| 27 | The proportion of all families with dependent children headed by a lone parent increased from 8% in 1971 to 19% in 1990 . |
| 28 | According to a 1990 market study by market researchers Mintel , the UK market for golf goods increased from £153m in 1983 to £250m in 1990 . |
| 29 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 30 | The proportion of births jointly registered by both parents has increased from 46% in 1971 to 71% in 1989 . |