Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [num] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last three years , tiger numbers have fallen from 44 to 15 , raising fears for their viability . |
| 2 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |
| 3 | Some 150 wolves are likely to be killed this year in the region , which is home to the Delta herd of caribou , whose numbers have fallen from 10,700 to 4,500 . |
| 4 | Since buying the company , its staff numbers have fallen from 25 to six . |
| 5 | The school is closing down and pupil numbers have fallen from 700 to 300 over ten years . |
| 6 | On the distributor roads however , such as the Altländerstrasse and the Konopkastrasse , mean speeds have fallen from 51 to 31 km/h . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 8 | Estimates of the reduction in global ozone concentration which may be caused by CFCs have varied from 3 to 20 per cent ( figure 6.4 ) ( Hulm , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1982a , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Turn-outs for local elections in Hungary have dropped from 40 to 20 per cent , and in some recent votes down below 15 per cent . |
| 10 | — there are far fewer letters than sounds , so that , for example , the five written vowels have to stand for two to three times as many spoken vowels ; |
| 11 | Money market interest rates have risen from 8 to 9 per cent in the course of one month . |
| 12 | According to the report , monthly applications for SHP have risen from 1,400 to 7,700 in four years . |
| 13 | Although average prices across the country are rising moderately from their levels of a year ago , in the South-east they have slid by 10 to 15 per cent in the past 12 months . |
| 14 | They have laid so many bets that the odds have tumbled from 2000 to one pre season to 12 to one . |
| 15 | Since January the odds that there would be no monarchy at all have tumbled from 100–1 to 5–1 . |
| 16 | Traditionally , management commission rates have ranged from 15 to 25 per cent of the band 's gross income . |
| 17 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 18 | National " net " wastage figures have been declining in recent years so that although learner intakes have declined from 30,000 to 18,000 between 1981 – 87 , the total qualified workforce increased from 212,000 to 239,000 ( Grocott 1989 ) . |
| 19 | In the United States , economists calculate that those who work at home for outside contractors or involuntarily work part-time have doubled since 1980 to nearly 17 per cent of all workers . |
| 20 | The numbers of damaging insect species resistant to pesticide have multiplied from 160 to 450 since 1960 . |
| 21 | Previous joint favourites Aston Villa have drifted from 9-4 to 3-1 . |