Example sentences of "[verb] risen from [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | V A T has risen from eight percent to seventeen and a half percent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Clinton had risen from impoverished childhood in Hope , Arkansas , to work his way through Georgetown University and hold a Rhodes scholarship ; he became the nation 's youngest sitting governor at 32 in 1979 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two most influential men in Bruges , the castellan and the dean of St Donatian 's , ex officio chancellor of Flanders , were both members of a powerful new family , the Erembalds , which had risen from servile origins to prominence by the route of comital administrative service . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 11 | Upon her death the property was bought by Matthew Lath , a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune . |
| 12 | he had risen from humble beginnings to great wealth to become that legendary favourite of American politics , the poor farm boy who made good . |