Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported in late December that some 142,000 Jews had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel during 1991 , compared with the 400,000 expected by the government at the start of the year and the 185,000 who had emigrated in 1990 . |
| 2 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 3 | Over 200,000 people had fled from the Itang refugee camp near Gambela in Ethiopia , on May 26 . |
| 4 | Already , seventy men had emigrated from the glen to America , and McQueen intended to follow them within the year . |
| 5 | Within a year , 10,000 miners had flocked from the Walla Walla settlement on to the reservation , and Lawyer 's followers readily signed an agreement exchanging mining rights north of the Clearwater for $50,000 . |
| 6 | Twenty-three people had vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 7 | Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area . |
| 8 | One corpse had slipped from the low single bed to the right of the door and lay staring up at her , the mouth open , the head almost cleft from the body . |
| 9 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 10 | Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest , leaving him as sole contender . |
| 11 | A further example of an indirect restraint is found in the case of Mineral Water Bottle Exchange and Trade Protection Society v Booth ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 465 where a trade association had a rule that no member should employ an employee who had left the service of another member without the consent in writing of his late employer until a period of two years had elapsed from the time of the end of his employment . |
| 12 | The two girls had risen from the couch at her entrance . |