Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 2 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 3 | The letter was brought from PLO headquarters in Tunis by Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Joergen Holst , who played a key role in secret Israeli-PLO contacts which lead to the agreement . |
| 4 | In 1941 membership slumped to 120 men , but rather more ladies ; and despite the War , advertisements for members appeared and the Club still employed a caddie master , Jim Wetton , whose wage was increased from £1 10s. 0d. to £2 0s. 0d . |
| 5 | Thermal conductivity was estimated from compaction data to derive a temperature profile which was constrained by known present-day geothermal gradients ( see Oxburgh and Andrews-Speed 1981 ) . |