Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Import tariffs would be lifted from 170 classes of products .
2 The two sets of girls might just have well come from two countries at war .
3 Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis .
4 Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants .
5 Boyden worldwide has become stronger , with revenues of $34.6m. earned from 1150 searches by 100 consultants ; this may lead to an increased presence in the British market .
6 If the warren and burrow systems are first cleared in the autumn , subsequent work in the area on other systems is likely to lead to rabbits evicted from one set of burrows going to ground elsewhere .
7 The degree of success varied from one head to another .
8 The speed at which an awareness of national fashions in architecture grew varied from one area to another .
9 As Tables 10–13 , below , show , most of the factors mentioned were common to all exhibitions , although the degree to which a particular factor contributed to an exhibition 's success varied from one exhibition to another .
10 Their controlled study showed that the social withdrawal and poverty of speech of chronic patients varied from one hospital to another according to the severity of ward restrictiveness , absence of personal belongings , and the length of time that patients were left to do nothing .
11 Duration of symptoms varied from two months to 15 years .
12 Thus the time spent on the physical abuse referrals varied from 30 minutes to 20 hours .
13 In the river valleys and levels breeding densities varied from 25 pairs per 2,500 acres ( 10 sq .
14 Direct drive stepping motors eliminate backlash and speed can be varied from 50-5000 microns per second with a focus resolution of 0.5 microns for precise control .
15 The sessions varied from ninety minutes to whole day programmes .
16 book , then it 's gon na get forgo , forgotten from one day to the next .
17 Her weight had dropped from 41.7 kg. at the beginning of May to 36.75 kg. on 28 June .
18 Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year .
19 As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four .
20 Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four .
21 However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June .
22 For instance , the playing time per hour at Wimbledon has dropped from 7.18 minutes in the 1970's to 3.55 minutes , whereas at the US Open , which used to be played on grass , it has actually gone up slightly from 8.14 minutes to 8.18 minutes .
23 Per capita consumption of whale meat has dropped from 2 kilograms in 1960 to 0–63 kg in 1978 .
24 For CFC-12 the growth rate dropped from 20 parts per trillion to 11 .
25 Turnover fell 20 p.c. to £16.9m and operating margins were squeezed from 11½ p.c. to 6½ p.c. as price competition intensified in the depressed construction sector .
26 ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges .
27 Another cause is that complete regions of DNA are transposed from one part of the molecule to another , or that foreign DNA from a virus has been inserted .
28 The exhortations of Scripture which relate to personal qualities and Christian virtues require little adaptation when transposed from one culture to another .
29 Nearly 70 women responded from 18 countries including Helen Chadwick from Great Britain , several from the USA including Nancy Spero and Yoko Ono who brought her sculpture to the exhibition , Valie Export from Austria , Helen Escobedo from Mexico and Ana Lupas who showed two sculptures from Rumania .
30 Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software .
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