Example sentences of "risen [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 2 | The level at which tax becomes payable has risen from £25,000 to £110,000 and the rates have been changed from an amount varying between 10 per cent and 75 per cent , to a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 3 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |
| 4 | Professional Fees have risen from £10,000 to nearly £42,000 largely because of the need to employ solicitors , surveyors and agents for the move of the Council 's offices to Bedford Row . |
| 5 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 6 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 7 | In total our fruit consumption has risen from 61lb to 69lb per person . |
| 8 | Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% . |
| 9 | The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% . |
| 10 | Since Intrum first offered its shares to investors two years ago the Stock Market has slumped while Intrum 's shares have risen from 81p to 87p . |
| 11 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 12 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Over the same period the outpatient cover has risen from £300 to £440 ( 49% ) . |
| 14 | • The ratio of duty on spirits to duty on wine has worsened from 1:1.65 in 1979 to 1:1.80 today , and the amount of duty on a 70cl bottle of Scotch Whisky — today 's standard size — has risen from £2.95 to £5.55 . |
| 15 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 16 | In the absence of further information to the contrary , we are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output . |
| 17 | View from City Road page 27 Tunnel shock : Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium which will operate the twin-rail tunnel when it enters service in June 1993 , announced that costs have risen by £2.2bn to £7bn . |
| 18 | The cost of the tunnel has risen by £2.2bn to £7bn — forcing Eurotunnel to return to its bankers for fresh loans . |
| 19 | Non-performing loans had risen by 75% to $770m . |
| 20 | In two years time , her bill will have risen by £4.50 to over £30 . ’ |