Example sentences of "[was/were] from [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was in a generally low-waged county ; in 1794 in Durham their earnings were from £4 to £6 .
2 Many of our clients were from sections of society which had few previous dealings or contacts with the police .
3 The estimates of infective dose were from studies in guineapigs , and this model might have been misleading since the lethal dose may be as small as 2400 organisms and as large as 100,000 , although about 130 organisms can cause an infection .
4 Both were from Witney in Oxfordshire .
5 As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) .
6 Increases in the OPV recipients were from 83% to 85% ( 2% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 94% for type 2 ( 3% ) , and no change ( 75% ) for type 3 .
7 The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles .
8 Inside fares by 1800 were from 4d to 6d ( 1.5p to 2.5p ) a mile .
9 Hereditary wardenships , for example , were from time to time inherited by priests : in 1207 William of Wrotham , Archdeacon of Taunton , received from King John seisin of the lands he held in chief in Somerset , and the wardenship of the forests of Somerset and Exmoor in Devon .
10 Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others .
11 Some landowners were from time to time able to obtain , by favour or by purchase , a royal grant of the right to hunt the lesser beasts of the forest , such as fox , wild cat and hare , but rarely the deer ; the general prohibition remained .
12 Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries .
13 Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back .
14 Although there were from time to time reports of " crossed aphasia " , in which the lesion is on the same side as the preferred hand ( Bramwell , 1899 ) , these were initially regarded as no more than occasional exceptions of the " contralateral rule " .
15 The OPV recipients ' increases were from 76% to 85% ( 9% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 95% ( 4% ) for type 2 , and from 57% to 65% ( 8% ) for type 3 .
16 Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) .
17 Sixteen of these were from patients with sarcoidosis who underwent biopsy of the lung ( nine patients ) , lymph node ( six patients ) , or skin ( one patient ) .
18 The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland .
19 The flight was from Paris to London , but because there was a strike in London affecting BEA 's Paris to London service a large number of British nationals were transferred to the Turkish DC-10 flight .
20 By the turn of the century road races were being held regularly , using Paris as a base , and the first real race was from Paris to Bordeaux , and back , in June 1895 .
21 The area I covered as a national organizer was from Berwick to Stirling and everything in between .
22 Today 's stretch was from Sonning to Whitchurch , with stops at Caversham and Mapledurham Locks .
23 The sleepy period was from midnight until noon , of which the worst part was about dawn .
24 The data period was from January to June 1983 .
25 Another road design of the same period , which included Ireland 's first suspension bridge , was from Kenmare to Bantry , in the south-west .
26 One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand .
27 It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time .
28 Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement .
29 He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood .
30 In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’
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