Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] from [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our share of the total votes cast increased from 58 to 59 per cent . |
| 2 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 3 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 4 | Over the last three years , tiger numbers have fallen from 44 to 15 , raising fears for their viability . |
| 5 | Average numbers of children per family in developing countries have fallen from six in 1960 to four today , thanks to growing use of contraceptives , according to the latest John Hopkins University Population Report . |
| 6 | First admissions to hospital for the former have fallen from 14 per 100,000 population in 1970 to 9 per 100,000 in 1978 . |
| 7 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |
| 8 | DIVORCE figures for first-time marriages have fallen from 122,890 in 1980 to 113,898 in 1990 , but the overall number of divorces has gone up . |
| 9 | Some 150 wolves are likely to be killed this year in the region , which is home to the Delta herd of caribou , whose numbers have fallen from 10,700 to 4,500 . |
| 10 | Since buying the company , its staff numbers have fallen from 25 to six . |
| 11 | The school is closing down and pupil numbers have fallen from 700 to 300 over ten years . |
| 12 | On the distributor roads however , such as the Altländerstrasse and the Konopkastrasse , mean speeds have fallen from 51 to 31 km/h . |
| 13 | Business bankruptcies have jumped from 28,935 in 1990 to 47,777 in 1991 . |
| 14 | Here is just one of the memories we have received from one of his students . |
| 15 | Estimates of the reduction in global ozone concentration which may be caused by CFCs have varied from 3 to 20 per cent ( figure 6.4 ) ( Hulm , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1982a , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Turn-outs for local elections in Hungary have dropped from 40 to 20 per cent , and in some recent votes down below 15 per cent . |
| 17 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 18 | Divorce rates in England and Wales have risen from 2.1 per thousand married people in 1961 to 6.0 in 1971 and 12.6 in 1987 . |
| 19 | Money market interest rates have risen from 8 to 9 per cent in the course of one month . |
| 20 | Numbers have risen from 135,000 in 1975 to 640,000 in 1990 . |
| 21 | According to the report , monthly applications for SHP have risen from 1,400 to 7,700 in four years . |
| 22 | New car registrations have risen from 99,000 in 1989 to 140,000 last year . |
| 23 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |
| 24 | They have laid so many bets that the odds have tumbled from 2000 to one pre season to 12 to one . |
| 25 | Since January the odds that there would be no monarchy at all have tumbled from 100–1 to 5–1 . |
| 26 | The numbers recorded annually vary widely ; since 1960 , for example , they have ranged from two in 1962 to about 40 in 1970 . |
| 27 | Traditionally , management commission rates have ranged from 15 to 25 per cent of the band 's gross income . |
| 28 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 29 | Numbers overall for those homeless have increased from 97,000 in 1984 to 135,000 in 1988 . |
| 30 | The worst increase is in murder cases , which , for the six forces surveyed , have leapt from 72 in 1991 to 122 in 1992 — a rise of 69 per cent . |