Example sentences of "from [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rouble has collapsed as Russia 's prices have soared : it now takes 934 roubles to buy a dollar , up from 128 a year ago . |
| 2 | Enquiries at Camborne rose from 750 a month to 1,100 a month after the new post was filled . |
| 3 | The annual report for 1992 showed the workforce was cut to 16,982 at the end of last year from 18,215 a year earlier , Reuter notes . |
| 4 | In that time , car sales have rocketed from 180 a year to 2,000 new cars , about 1,500 used and 350 vans . |
| 5 | The birds can spot their targets from half a mile ( 0.8 km ) . |
| 6 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 7 | Bassetja led from half a mile out and looked at one stage like winning the race as the favourite Velma appeared to have it all to do . |
| 8 | If you are a fish who basically lives and breathes in water , but who occasionally ventures on land , perhaps to cross from one mud puddle to another thereby surviving a drought , you might benefit not just from half a lung but from one-hundredth of a lung . |
| 9 | I shelter his top in winter ; he gains from half a yard to two feet in height every summer and will , ere long , I doubt not , repay my care with his beauty and fragrance . |
| 10 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 11 | John Reid took the honours on Captain Horatius , who confirmed his liking for soft ground by stretching away by four lengths from Half A Tick . |
| 12 | Well apart from half a slice of bread an so some orange . |
| 13 | From half a lifetime later we have two fine marble statues , one ( fig. 171 ) certainly the work of Paionios , the other ( fig. 161 ) probably of Alkamenes . |
| 14 | According to the association 's annual survey , the number of robots in Britain grew from 713 a year earlier to 1152 at the end of 1982 . |
| 15 | In this chapter I shall try to locate our present concerns in a pattern of historical development , and seek to excavate from this a prognosis for the viability of current strategies and initiatives . |
| 16 | Those that remain have made a personal investment in time and energy ; they have a stake in maintaining the system that has been developed and replacements will need to make their mark and have freedom to develop new ideas , from this a sense of identity , ownership and commitment will develop . |
| 17 | A minor may sue for wages , piece work or for work as a servant ( s 47 of the 1984 Act ) , but apart from this a person under disability may not bring or defend proceedings , or counter-claim , except if a plantiff by his next friend or if a defendant by a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 1(1) , ( 2 ) ) . |
| 18 | From this a deduction has to be made for knife sharpening and shields , about 4d a week … the women suffer greatly from chronic asthma … and by the acids with which the Colonial skins are cleaned . |
| 19 | But he will give us the feeling that though the character has not been explained , it is explicable , and we get from this a reality of a kind we can never get in real life … . |
| 20 | From this a distribution of the word scores assigned to the target words was derived . |
| 21 | The meeting adopted a Soviet proposal to phase in gradually from 1991 a protocol allowing for the introduction of hard-currency trading among member countries . |
| 22 | Italy first published a similar list in 1865 , and from 1888 a bulletin in which the foreign ministry provided information on promotions and transfers of officials and diplomats as well as condensed versions of consular and diplomatic reports . |
| 23 | This statement , from such a conservative and distinguished authority , certainly puts the idea that dietary fibre is beneficial well beyond the ‘ crank threshold ’ . |
| 24 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 25 | Therefore there is clearly some on-going benefit from such a campaign which can not be measured by the number of enquiries received . |
| 26 | It was hard to see what extra benefit would accrue to Honda from such a stake , especially when , in addition to the ventures already discussed , an agreement had been reached to assemble Honda cars in Rover factories on spare production lines in order to provide jobs for Rover workers . |
| 27 | The Christians in Corinth were confused ; should they withdraw from such a society ; one party in the church seems to have been saying that they must , to avoid being defiled by all the ‘ isms ’ ( paganism , hedonism , animism , polytheism , … ) around them ; the other party was saying that contact with the non-Christian society around them was all right . |
| 28 | Although it might seem impossible to get cooperation from such a child , given his usual behaviour , this should not put you off . |
| 29 | Diffracted beams from such a surface are conventionally divided into two categories : integral-order beams produced by the substrate alone , and fractional-order beams arising from the combined substrate and adsorbed layer symmetry . |
| 30 | Where a licensing board : ( a ) refuses to grant , renew or transfer a licence under this Part of this Act , or ( b ) on an application for the grant of a licence under this Part of this Act , specifies , as types of liquor which may be sold under the licence , types other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made , or ( c ) on an application for renewal of a licence under this Part of this Act , does not comply with any request duly made by the applicant for a change in the specification of the types of liquor which may be sold under the licence , or ( d ) requires modifications in the rules proposed to be made as to the persons entitled to use the canteen , or withholds its consent to a variation of those rules , or ( e ) makes an order under section 42(4) of this Act , the applicant or , as the case may be , the licence-holder may appeal to the sheriff from such a decision of the licensing board . |