Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 2 | This is mainly because salaries have not kept pace with the rise in house prices which , until this year 's slump , had more than tripled from an average £19,925 in 1979 to £61,965 by August this year , according to the Building Societies Association 's latest figures . |
| 3 | The Nikkei index of share prices plunged by 3½ p.c. on both Tuesday and Wednesday , and whatever happened in the early hours of this morning , the index has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year and more than halved from its peak . |
| 4 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
| 5 | Total loans for house buying has more than quadrupled from about £9.1 billion to £43 billion , with the number of mortgages increasing by 62 p.c. from 6.5m to about 10m . |
| 6 | Between 1964 and 1990 , the number of births outside marriage increased from 63 thousand to 200 thousand , while the proportion of all births that they represent more than quadrupled from 7% to 29% . |
| 7 | He described the former as derived from traditional sources and given theatrical form which demonstrated how his peasants and farmers would move in everyday life . |
| 8 | Atolls , coral reefs and palm fringed beaches have a beauty of their own when seen from the unaccustomed vantage point offered by flight ( figure XX ) . |