Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [n mass] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those eating less for health reasons now represented 46pc of the total , whereas those stating financial reasons dropped to 18pc from 26p c in 1990 . |
| 2 | Combined sales here fell year to £16.9m this from £17.5m last , while profits dropped to £200,000 from £800,000 . |
| 3 | IBM Corp cut prices on five models of its PS/2 Model 85 and 95 servers : the 95-OMT is cut $700 to $12,365 ; the Model 85-OX6 , dropped to $3,800 from $3,875 , IBM said . |
| 4 | Turnover likewise dropped to £14.7m from £36.6m because , Lester said , virtually all major orders were delayed . |
| 5 | Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp said it cut the prices on the LinkBuilder FMS TP twisted-pair stackable hub and accompanying network management software products : the hub is cut 10% to $1,000 , and a new six-port fibre hub , the third member of the LinkBuilder family , will would begin shipping in May at $2,300 ; core IsoView Network Management software is slashed to $645 from $3,000 . |
| 6 | Sales dropped by 15% from December 1991 to December 1992 . |
| 7 | Unix slumped to 10% from 13% , the lowest it has ever scored in the Byte poll . |
| 8 | Earnings per share in the year to 31 January have slumped to 21.75p from 24.87p , and the trust management will have to dip into revenue reserves just to meet the board 's own proposed final dividend of 17p . |
| 9 | Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier ’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . |
| 10 | In contrast , investment income has risen to 6pc from 3.5pc , and social-security benefits have risen to 13pc from 8pc . |
| 11 | The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works says the cost of completing the telecommunications tower in Kuwait City has risen to $175m from $110m : the increase is due mainly to damage done by the Iraqis during their occupation of the country , as well as changes in the project 's specifications and a rise in the cost of raw materials and labour . |
| 12 | They come in a dispenser of 50 sheets , priced at £1.69 from Boots and department stores . |
| 13 | Wright cost Liverpool £2.2m when he joined from Derby 18 months ago , Stewart was bought for £2.1m from Spurs and Thomas came from Arsenal for £1.5m . |
| 14 | The material can be bought for £1.99 from camping shops and army surplus stores . |
| 15 | The package is designed to be used with staff from health , social services , housing , voluntary and private agencies . |
| 16 | Sensitivity to this is reflected in data from Burgoyne and Clark 's study of people in second marriages . |
| 17 | Earnings per share at the Blackburn-based company advanced to 13.8p from 13.2p and the dividend total for shareholders is up to 5.63p from 5.36p . |
| 18 | Andrew Tombs , 27 , of Stokesley , North Yorkshire , agreed to carry out 150 hours community service after pleading guilty at Teesside Crown Court to stealing equipment valued at £7,400 from Tarmac Construction , while working for them as a drainer on a building site in the town . |
| 19 | The interim dividend is raised to 1.2p from 1.03p while earnings per share climbed to 7.24p from 5.93p . |
| 20 | The final dividend is raised to 10.4p from 9.6p , taking the total to 16.1p from 15.3p . |
| 21 | The long-term objective is to develop techniques for displaying a unified three-dimensional representation of the geology , in which the interpretation based on data from surface mapping and borehole evidence is constrained by interpretations of gravity , magnetic , seismic reflection , electrical conductivity and any other relevant geophysical data . |
| 22 | The sensitivities of fitness to changes in survival and fertility at different ages are explained in Box 1 , and illustrated by Fig. 1 , which is based on data from lines of Drosophila selected for early or late reproduction . |
| 23 | It has sold another £28m of assets and has now pulled in £70m from disposals since it took over the Brookmount property group in August . |
| 24 | In the UK , its roof tiles operation saw profits fall due to lower prices and further redundancy costs , while its roofing business was boosted to £161.1m from £128.9m . |
| 25 | Losses per share were reduced to 0.3p from 21.2p in 1991 . |
| 26 | At Keepers Fold in Middlewich , Cheshire , the four-bedroom Denham has been reduced to £99,950 from £109,950 . |
| 27 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd 's Panasonic Communications & Systems Co in Seacaucus , New Jersey cut by between 15% and 40% the prices on its notebook computers : the CF-1000 is reduced to $1,900 from $2,200 , the CF-480 was cut to $1,700 from $2,700 and the CF-480C was reduced to $3,500 from $5,000 . |
| 28 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 29 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd 's Panasonic Communications & Systems Co in Seacaucus , New Jersey cut by between 15% and 40% the prices on its notebook computers : the CF-1000 is reduced to $1,900 from $2,200 , the CF-480 was cut to $1,700 from $2,700 and the CF-480C was reduced to $3,500 from $5,000 . |
| 30 | Write-offs were reduced to £72.2m from £548.9m . |