Example sentences of "have grown from [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helped by a couple of purchases north of the Border , the chain has grown from 130 at the beginning of 1992 to 209 now , with operating profits leaping from just £700,000 in 1991 to £4.9 million last year . |
| 2 | The number of exhibitors has grown from seventeen to twenty-three , and the range of works , previously top heavy with French eighteenth-century and Flemish drawings , is now dominated by modern and contemporary . |
| 3 | The number of trusts has grown from 493 in 1980 to 1379 in 1989 , with many commentators predicting a certain degree of rationalisation in the 1990's , although there is no evidence of this as yet . |
| 4 | Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace . |
| 5 | The size of the group has grown from 16,000 to 28,000 staff as its operations have expanded . |
| 6 | But as It celebrated a year of publication it had grown from twelve to twenty pages , with the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section now , significantly , filling two tightly set pages at the back , and the Arts Lab offering a ‘ Black Power Week ’ complete with Stokeley Carmichael — bundled out of the country post Dialectics of Liberation — on film , and ‘ Michael Abdul Malik and guests ’ . |
| 7 | The number of asylum seekers had grown from 5,000 in 1988 to an expected 46,000 in 1991 . |
| 8 | Ian also said that since the company was launched in October 1990 , the sales force had grown from 40 to 270 and overall , more than 420 jobs had been created . |
| 9 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |