Example sentences of "[verb] risen to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 , under 10 per cent of drinks bought were in plastic bottles , while in 1987 this figure has risen to nearly 40 per cent . |
| 2 | The number has risen to nearly 100 . |
| 3 | Today it has risen to over 40 per cent in Britain , Scandinavia , and North America , and 30 per cent in France , in contrast to less than 7 per cent in China and Japan . |
| 4 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 5 | Since then , company-car taxation scales have increased tenfold , but despite the supposed deterrent effect of this the number of people affected has risen to about 2m . |
| 6 | Income has risen to about £400,000 , but profit has slipped from a peak of almost £60,000 in the mid-1980s to a modest £34,391 in the 1990–91 financial year , on about £350,000 of tenant 's capital deployed . |
| 7 | But the broadcasts have confused voters — the number of don't-knows has risen to almost half — and produced complex movements in the far-from-reliable opinion polls , where four candidates are now closely bunched in second position behind a fast-flagging leader . |
| 8 | Unemployment has risen to almost 22% . |
| 9 | Sponsorship has risen to almost £89,000 , and the one black spot on the horizon is that arts council funding has dropped . |
| 10 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 11 | At the turn of the century an amount equal to only approximately 2.5 per cent of the GDP was spent on social services ; by the outbreak of the Second World War the percentage had risen to 11–12 per cent , and since the war it has risen to around 40 per cent . |
| 12 | First , the firm is eager to expand its data-transmission services , which at present make up just 5% of total sales ; by 2000 it hopes that will have risen to around 20% . |
| 13 | Later in the century the number shipped may have risen to as many as 100,000 a year , and the British share of the total certainly became larger . |
| 14 | The 12.9 per cent illiteracy rate in 1981 was admitted to have risen to over 20 per cent by the late 1980s . |
| 15 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 16 | The number of local Green parties had risen to nearly 270 by the end of the year and the membership had almost doubled from 9000 at the beginning of the year to 17,000 by the end . |
| 17 | There were only 9 inhabitants of the hamlet called Porthmeor before the harbour was created , but within 10 years the population had risen to nearly 300 . |
| 18 | Thus , popular capitalism has been extended : in 1980 there were just over three million shareholders but by the end of 1989 the number had risen to just under twelve million . |
| 19 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |
| 20 | By December , British casualties on the Somme had risen to over 400,000 . |
| 21 | By 15 June 1987 the company 's overdraft had risen to over £98,000 . |
| 22 | At the time of Britain 's accession in 1973 , the budget stood at £2,000 million per annum ; in 1991 it had risen to over £43,000 million . |
| 23 | In 1950 the gross personal incomes of those living in the five Pacific states amounted to just over a quarter of those living in the 18 Atlantic states ; by 1982 it had risen to very nearly half . |
| 24 | By the end of the century it had risen to more than £300,000 per annum . |
| 25 | The price of an egg ( about 10 pfennigs before the war ) had risen to about 80 million marks by November 1923 . |
| 26 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short-term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . |
| 28 | By January 1985 almost 300 heavy goods vehicle movements per 24 hours were recorded ; by 1988 the figure had risen to about 750 . |
| 29 | By 1981 , this had risen to almost one third ( 29.9 per cent ) , that is 23/4 million ( Family Policy Studies Centre , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Council tenants ' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million , and in some inner London boroughs two out of three tenants are in arrears , the Audit Commission reveals . |