Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] from [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
2 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
3 | After its recognition in 1936 and its description as a clinical entity in 1938 , the prognosis has improved from a few months of life to a median age of survival of over 20 years . |
4 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
5 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
6 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
7 | Newman believes that in Britain these quasi-governmental and quasi-non-governmental bodies , estimates of which have ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand , depending on definitions , are not ‘ structurally integral to corporatism ’ but a significant domestic phenomenon which reinforces corporatist tendencies . |