Example sentences of "had [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Book publishing had soared to more than 55,000 new titles and reprints . |
| 2 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
| 3 | Alright he knew he had to go to afterwards , half past three , but he could n't unwind one bit there . |
| 4 | The crowd had swollen to about 70 by now , standing in a respectful arc , as if the stage was protected by a sci-fi forcefield . |
| 5 | By the day of the funeral , numbers had swollen to about 80 . |
| 6 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 7 | For example , the British Marxists Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1913–14 male clerks earned 122% of the average manual wage , but by 1971 this had fallen to just 96% . |
| 8 | In 1979 almost 65 per cent of places in residential homes were in local authority establishments , but by 1986 the proportion had fallen to just below 50 per cent . |
| 9 | By nineteen ninety two , it had fallen to just about twenty percent . |
| 10 | Last year that figure had fallen to just 7,800 properties . |
| 11 | But the whole Turkish diplomatic and consular establishment , which was further swollen for political reasons by Sultan Abdul Hamid in the 1880s and 1890s , was considerably reduced by the revolution of 1908 – 09 which overthrew him , so that by 1914 the foreign ministry staff had fallen to probably no more than 150 . |
| 12 | Demobilisation intensified the overstocking of the trade , and by 1818 the depressed weavers were claiming earnings had fallen to as little as 5s ( 25p ) a week for a journeyman and were asking " whether such a paltry sum be sufficient to keep the soul and body together " . |
| 13 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 14 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 15 | By June 1990 a total of 95,000 Germans had their applications for citizenship approved by the West German embassy in Bucharest , while the mayor of Sibiu , Mircea Tomas , was reported by Tanjug as saying during a visit to Belgrade that the German community in Romania had fallen to only 80,000 . |
| 16 | In manufacturing industry by 1975 the profit rate had fallen to only half of its 1968 level ( table 13.2 ) . |
| 17 | In 1979 there were over 150,000 vehicles authorised for main-line running , but by 1989 the total had fallen to around 40,000 . |
| 18 | When we reached 6000 feet manifold pressure had fallen to around 23 ’ but our true airspeed had increased to around 155 knots at 10–10.5 gallons per hour . |
| 19 | By the end of the 1970s , numbers had fallen to around 1.3 million . |
| 20 | He said that the economy was now stabilizing ; inflation had fallen to around 5 per cent , and unemployment had gone no higher than 2 per cent . |
| 21 | During 1990 it was believed that the strength of the NPA had fallen to around 19,000 compared with 25,600 in 1988 , as a result of the continuing success of the armed forces in disrupting and demoralizing the guerrillas by targeting the movement 's leadership . |
| 22 | Thus , while those favourably disposed towards the United States government had fallen to around 52 per cent by October 1956 ( just before the start of the Suez conflict ) 64 per cent continued to think well of the " American people " . |
| 23 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
| 24 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 25 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 26 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 27 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 28 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 29 | When the city finally surrendered the population had fallen to less than 16,000 . |
| 30 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |