Example sentences of "have [vb pp] from [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Manufacturers ' rate of return on capital has jumped from 2% to 10% .
2 As a result , Asia 's share in world output has jumped from 7% to 18% .
3 Over the last five years criminal legal aid has soared from £25 million to £47 million while advice and assistance has gone up from £5.9 million to £15.4 million .
4 Shares in the quoted radio stocks in 1988 outperformed the market by 100 per cent , and since March 1987 , the sector 's market value has soared from £33m to over £400m .
5 On a 25-year traditional with-profits endowment policy taken out by a man aged 29 with monthly premiums of £30 , the maturity pay-out has fallen from £61,505 a year ago to £58,754 now .
6 The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 .
7 That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely .
8 Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% .
9 At the same time per capita income rose from S$1,330 to S$22,867 in 1991 , and unemployment has fallen from 11% to less than 2% .
10 In England and Wales , the sex ratio at birth has fallen from 106.3in 1971–5 to 104.8in 1988 ( Shaw 1989 ) .
11 Union membership has fallen from 53% of workers in 1979 to 37% now .
12 Because of the increased efficiency of our exploration programme , our spending on this activity has fallen from £744 million in 1990 to £xxx million in 1992 .
13 The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect .
14 Investment in public sector housing has fallen from 27% of total dwelling investment in 1979 to only 18% in 1991 .
15 As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers .
16 Yet the downward trend has started ; and a Burmese economic expert reckons that last month the cost of living figure has fallen from 800% above pre-war level to 600% .
17 The value of the original investment , therefore , has swollen from £145 to £7,881 .
18 INVESTORS are exploring whether they have grounds for legal action against MTM , the troubled chemicals group whose value has collapsed from £256 million in February to £22 million .
19 HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson yesterday told the garages and property group 's bankers that its value has collapsed from £585m to £135m .
20 Since the introduction of Medicare in 1984 the proportion of the population covered by private insurance has dropped from 62% in 1983 to 42% in 1992 , with a large decrease in coverage among young people .
21 By contrast , the share of industrial economies has dropped from 73% to 54% .
22 ‘ An order has come from headquarters that you are all to be freed this afternoon , ’ he said .
23 Vocal opposition , such as it is , has come from people who are retired from public life , who have been purged or pushed to one side by the Ceausescu leadership , or who have been forced to make do with a moral posture on key issues , registering their dissent , but no more .
24 It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) .
25 The improvement could allow some repayment of its long-term debt which has grown from £12.7m in 1986 to almost $69m at the end of last year .
26 During this period the number of book issues sampled from library authorities has grown from 3m to 10.6m .
27 Since then the market has grown from £12m to more than £230m , according to industry estimates .
28 The proportion of holidays of four nights and above between October and April has grown from 14% in 1976 to 22% last year , while August holidays have slipped from 24% to 20% and July from 25% to 18% .
29 The proportion of all adults living alone has risen from 9% in 1973 to 13% in 1988 ( General Household Survey 1988 ) .
30 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 .
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