Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 2 | It is striking that federal spending on research and development into energy was halved in the 1980s ; R&D into renewable energy alone fell from $700m in 1981 to $115m in 1989 . |
| 3 | In particular , we have thus once again honoured in full our commitment to increase in line with prices the basic retirement pension , which will thus rise from £52 to £54.15 a week for a single person and from £83.25 to £86.70 for a couple , entailing additional expenditure of about £1 billion . |
| 4 | Profits still tumbled from £68m to £33m but that includes £8m of redundancy costs . |
| 5 | They come in small , medium and large sizes and usually cost from £25 to £75 . |
| 6 | Monthly premiums for beneficiaries was to be gradually increased from $28.60 to $46.50 by 1995 . |
| 7 | But with competitors still excluded from sales to households and other small-scale customers , BG last year managed to attract 290,000 new customers . |
| 8 | Expenditure on Central Office , district offices and the London office doubled from £32,466 in 1909–10 to $68,957 in 1913–14 ; the total expenditure of the party organization from central funds also doubled from $73,000 to over £150,000 . |
| 9 | London-based controller developer Pacific Semiconductor ( Europe ) Ltd has introduced its new Laserboost board that it says can radically improve the performance of Canon Inc SX , RX and TX-based laser printers like the LaserJet II and III , Brother HL8E and Canon LBP8II for a fraction of the cost of a new machine : the board takes only 15 minutes to install and costs just £380 ; it features Hewlett-Packard Co PCL 5 printer language , eight scalable fonts , a 20MHz 68020 processor , proprietary ASICs and Direct Memory Access through the parallel port ; it also has from 2Mb of memory , one independent and two parallel ports , offering HP7475A plotter emulation . |
| 10 | Though the devaluation of the pound during the later part of the year helped to offset weaker oil prices , the sterling equivalent also dropped from £11.43 to £10.96 a barrel . |
| 11 | The rate of interest for tax paid late or repayments of inheritance tax , capital transfer tax , and estate duty is also reduced from 6% to 5% from 20 November 1992 . |
| 12 | The rate of interest for tax paid late or repayments of inheritance tax , capital transfer tax , and estate duty is also reduced from 8% to 6% from 6 November 1992 . |
| 13 | Estimates vary but profits will probably rise from £58.2m before tax to say £66m this year and £80m next , excluding property . |
| 14 | Minneapolis-based Network Systems Corp cut the price on its 6600 single-board router products by as much as 38% for some models : prices will now range from $5,000 to $17,000 , and the cuts are in response to a price cut by a competing company and due to ‘ tremendous improvements in manufacturing efficiency ; ’ 3Com Corp has recently slashed the prices for its routers . |
| 15 | SunWest 's latest lists contain details of attractive offers : ‘ A detached villa in Tropicana , which was originally £72,000 , is now slashed from £67,500 to £55,000 . ’ |
| 16 | The public 's political knowledge appears to have increased ; the number of respondents who were able to name their own MP correctly rose from 34% in the first survey to 43% in the last . |
| 17 | Its investment typically range from $500,000 to $5m . |
| 18 | Premiums vary , but typically range from £8 to £10 a year . |
| 19 | A high-end Compstation 40 with Solaris and Motif software now costs from $9,000 with 16Mb CPU and 520Mb disk , 19″ colour monitor , a 1.44Mb floppy drive and a single-slot GX accelerator board . |
| 20 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 21 | A perfectly satisfactory standard total hip replacement could be marketed for not much over £100 , but the price in Britain now varies from £250 to well over £1000 for each implant . |
| 22 | The Emperor 's New Mind ( Roger Penrose , Vintage , £6.90 ) , winner of the 1990 Science Book prize ( which interestingly jumps from £1,000 to £10,000 next year ) , covers the spheres of computers , the mind and cosmology . |
| 23 | The deficit in the Personal Motor account was substantially reduced from $20.0m to $3.4m reflecting higher premium levels and lower claims frequency on a better quality portfolio . |
| 24 | The pay range for Lecturers now runs from £12,638 to £31,726 . |
| 25 | Tickets for tonight and tomorrow range from £9 to £7 ( with a pound off for pensioners and youngsters ) and are available at the door or by ringing 0914773600 . |
| 26 | The signs are real neon , mostly constructed , but some borrowed ; however , the ads on the blimp are simply projected from 35mm on a second camera pass . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note that shortly after this study , the top rate of tax on earned income in the UK was indeed reduced from 83% to 60%.4 |
| 28 | But Coun Carr stressed that the 1990–1 debt had been almost halved from £6.5m to £3.5m in just nine months . |
| 29 | Sales almost doubled from £61.9m to £120m for the year to 30 June , but operating margins fell sharply and pre-tax profits rose just five per cent to £7.29m . |
| 30 | Only in the rump region do the stripes markedly differ from species to species This means that , when fleeing at speed , each zebra can follow its own species flag . |