Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 2 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 3 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 4 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 5 | She said that the complaints had come from people on the same estate who were ‘ really quite close ’ to the former rectory . |
| 6 | ‘ Non-fuel ’ running costs , for example , had risen from $25 per kilowatt of capacity in 1974 to $94 in 1984 , making nuclear plants about as expensive to run as coal . |
| 7 | In three years VPI 's value had risen from £9.55 million to £121 million . |
| 8 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 9 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 10 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 11 | Latest figures revealed by the Government yesterday show that in 1990 and 1991 , for the first time ever , no child had died from measles , and last year no child died from whooping cough , again for the first time . |
| 12 | In 9-month-old IPV recipients ( fig 2 ) , overall seroprevalences 4–6 weeks after vaccination had increased from 85% to 97% ( 12% ) for type 1 , from 93% to 100% ( 7% ) for type 2 , and from 76% to 92% ( 16% ) for type 3 . |
| 13 | Mr Michael Fallon said he thought it was wrong that the surcharge for non-payment had increased from £16.16 last year to £19.65 this year . |
| 14 | By 1983 the health budget had increased from £9.5 billion in 1979 to £15.5 billion . |
| 15 | The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Committee was formed in 1887 and the colliery owners and public of this area played a prominent part in maintaining the hospital ; so much so that by 1935 the three bed hospital now had 153 beds and its income had increased from £300 to £18,000 . |
| 16 | Sales had increased from £183m to £289m . |
| 17 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 18 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 19 | Mr Shaw also reported that net debt had decreased from £63 million to £58 million . |
| 20 | This is perhaps just as well , since White 's informative 1985 survey of interlending in the UK found that the percentage of UK requests satisfied within a period of seven days ( from all sources ) had declined from 50% in 1977 to 32% in 1985 . |