Example sentences of "had risen [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new plan went into effect on Feb. 1 to combat inflation , which in January had risen above 20 per cent . |
| 2 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 3 | His deep , warm western voice had risen into plangent eloquence , indignant and rapt . |
| 4 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 5 | Health costs in the previous four years had risen at 15 per cent per annum and the President instituted a requirement for certificates of need for any hospital expenditure over $150 000 . |
| 6 | These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year . |
| 7 | Even though its vote was slightly up on that of October 1974 , Labour 's share of the poll had fallen to 36.9 per cent , the worst since 1931 , while the Tories had risen to 43.9 per cent . |
| 8 | The number of air passengers had risen to 1,100 million ( 49 per cent higher than in 1980 ) and was expected to double in the 1990s . |
| 9 | By now , several more MPs were embroiled in the row over whether or not the Princess of Wales was dangerously underweight , and the death toll in the Cardiff fire had risen to four . |
| 10 | Among the Bush campaign 's problems were the President 's lack of domestic achievements or a clear aims for a second term ; a shortage of tangible foreign policy achievements or objectives ( the success of the Gulf war having been marred by the continuance in power of Saddam Hussein ) ; the depressed state of the US economy ( unemployment figures released in July showed that the total without work had risen to 7.8 per cent ) ; continuing reservations over the choice of Dan Quayle as Vice-President ; and growing rumours that the President 's apparent lack of appetite for the election campaign was symptomatic of serious ill-health — although Bush sought to dispel the " crazy rumours " surrounding his campaign . |
| 11 | By 1973 the average annual inflation rate had risen to 7.8 per cent . |
| 12 | After two years of compulsory competitive tendering in-house providers had won 57 per cent of all contracts , and by 1988 this proportion had risen to 85 per cent . |
| 13 | In 1954 Beresford listed 1353 sites of deserted villages ; by 1968 the number had risen to 2263 ; in 1976 this was updated to 2813 . |
| 14 | By 1983–4 the proportion so affected had risen to 17 per cent . |
| 15 | By last year it had risen to one pound sixty nine . |
| 16 | Explaining that the parish precept had risen to 8 percent less than the 11–1/2 percent predicted for many other councils , David Clark , finance and general purposes chairman , was questioned by Col. John Dabson . |
| 17 | On the first day alone , the Russians captured 13,000 men ; by noon on 6 June , the third day , the tally had risen to 900 officers and 40,000 other ranks , together with 77 guns and 134 machine-guns . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the 1976 English House Condition Survey found that over 5 per cent of the rural housing stock was still unfit , and by 1981 this had risen to 6.7 per cent ( Department of the Environment 1978 , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | In 1879 only 10 per cent of the tonnage launched on the Clyde was of steel construction , but by 1889 that figure had risen to 97 per cent . |
| 20 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
| 21 | In 1951 about four million people in Britain owned their own homes ; by 1985 this figure had risen to 14 million , with 62 per cent of the total housing stock being owner-occupied ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 137 , table 8.1 ) . |
| 22 | On July 9 five dissidents entered the Czechoslovakian embassy asking to travel to Eastern Europe , and by July 11 the number of asylum seekers had risen to 14 . |
| 23 | Demonstrations continued during the following days , culminating in a series of nationwide strikes and rallies on Oct. 15-16 , by which time the death toll had risen to eight . |
| 24 | In 1985 , 38 children per 100,000 were admitted , while in 1990 , the number had risen to 63 children per 100,000 . |
| 25 | By the end of the 1938–39 session , the number of classes and courses had risen to 156 and the enrolled student total exceeded 3,000 . |
| 26 | Repeating yesterday 's news that inflation had risen to 7.6 per cent , she said it was too high — it must and would be reduced . |
| 27 | By the end of 1915 , the British Army in France , thus reinforced , had risen to 38 divisions , more than 3 million men having come forward to serve in ‘ Kitchener 's Army ’ . |
| 28 | In 1980 this had risen to 70 per cent and in 1986 to 75 per cent . |
| 29 | It had fallen 50 metres by 10 500 years ago , and had risen to 10 m above OD 4000 years later , when much of the well-known Carse clay was deposited . |
| 30 | The death toll in the Algiers airport bombing on Aug. 26 [ see p. 39072 ] had risen to 10 by Sept. 1 , with 128 people wounded . |