Example sentences of "[verb] risen [prep] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Global sea level has risen by 10–20 cm over the last century partly as a response to the 0.5 °C rise in global temperature during that time . |
| 2 | V A T has risen from eight percent to seventeen and a half percent . |
| 3 | While life expectancy has risen from 46 years in 1961 to 59 years in 1977 , 20% of the infant population still die before reaching the age of five . |
| 4 | They showed the proportion of directors reporting improved order books has risen from 28 p.c. in February to 43 p.c. this month , while 37 p.c. say profits are higher compared with 30 p.c. two months ago . |
| 5 | The Dow Jones index surged 47.63 points in late trading to close at 3353.76 having risen by 124 points in four sessions . |
| 6 | In 1985 , 38 children per 100,000 were admitted , while in 1990 , the number had risen to 63 children per 100,000 . |
| 7 | Average life expectancy was only 43 years in 1880 ; it had risen to 62 years in 1939 , and by the 1960s it was over 70 . |
| 8 | Norms of 12–16 fps had risen to 20 fps by the 1920s , and in effect to 24 fps ( at least in projection ) by the time the coming of sound made standardization compulsory . |
| 9 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 10 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 11 | According to Labour Ministry figures , the number of working days lost in strikes had risen from 2,267,878 days in April to 10,221,700 in May and almost 30,000,000 in June . |
| 12 | In just five years , between 1970 and 1975 , the amount released from the pipelines of one single radionuclide , caesium , had risen from 31,170 curies to 141,377 . |