Example sentences of "[vb past] rise [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-performing loans had risen by 75% to $770m . |
| 2 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |