Example sentences of "[n mass] have [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official statistics indicate that the potentially dangerous near misses involving civil and military aircraft has increased from 80 in 1979 to 92 in 1988 , but the risk has declined , because of the increase in volume of civil traffic . |
| 2 | The total number of academic staff has risen from 284 in 1987/88 to 348 in 1991/92 . |
| 3 | Indeed , the company 's staff has dropped from 750 to around 400 , but revenue per head has increased from around £35,000 in 1988 to £75,000 last year . |
| 4 | According to Le Monde of Oct. 22 widespread famine had triggered violent protests in a number of northern districts where , the report claimed , up to 5,000 people had died from water-borne diseases in the last two months . |
| 5 | Although Psion also unveiled a bigger-than-expected £2.2m loss for last year , against a £546,000 profit in 1990 , news that Series 3 sales had grown from 4,000 units in January to 14,000 last month spurred the shares . |
| 6 | In the twentieth century , large numbers of people have migrated from poor countries to richer countries in search of work , from Europe to the Americas , from black to white-ruled Southern Africa , from Mexico and Central America and the Caribbean to North America , from the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent to Britain and from southern to northern Europe . |
| 7 | This restructuring has seen a redistribution of talents as well as a reduction in numbers and many people have transferred from central functions to the regions . |
| 8 | Expenses cashier Fiona Smith has been collecting the small change when people have returned from overseas business trips and holidays over the last six months . |
| 9 | You could be right , for many people have drifted from one job to another and finally ended up in public relations . |
| 10 | UP TO a million people have fled from northern Rwanda to escape fresh fighting between rebels and government forces , relief workers said yesterday . |
| 11 | People have vanished from high valleys in the Pyrenees like this one , and continue to do so , to live different and economically more ambitious lives in the towns . |
| 12 | It follows that working-class people have benefited from this , but they are still more likely to be overcrowded than non-manual groups . |
| 13 | In that time , car sales have rocketed from 180 a year to 2,000 new cars , about 1,500 used and 350 vans . |
| 14 | Since then , sales have jumped from 6.86 billion francs to 8.56 billion in 1992 , while pre-tax profits have soared to 443 million francs from 130 million in 1988 . |
| 15 | Since 1990 sales have slid from 15.7 per cent to 12.5 per cent . |
| 16 | In only 5 of 11 years has P. albimonus been the commonest species , four others having occupied that position ; in 1977 Episyrphus balteatus formed nearly half the total catch ; in 1976 , a third of the species caught were represented by one individual ; and the number of individuals per species has varied from 20 in 1981 to over 120 in 1978 . |
| 17 | In the last tenyears the workforce of the Rover works has dropped from 12,000 to 5,000 . |
| 18 | Less than a dozen works have survived from this period and , on the artist 's instructions , they were never exhibited with his other work during his lifetime . |
| 19 | In Southern Norway , lakes in a region of 18,000sq km are virtually devoid of fish , while salmon have vanished from seven major rivers . |
| 20 | This series has run from last March , and by now we have hopefully supplied every bit of information the beginner requires to set up an efficient basic tropical tank ( throughout this feature we back-reference for your convenience if you missed earlier articles ) . |
| 21 | Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product . |