Example sentences of "has increased from [num] per " in BNC.

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1 The percentage entering higher education has increased from 16.8 per cent .
2 The unemployment rate for male professional workers , employers and managers has increased from 4 per cent in 1975–7 to 6 per cent in 1983–4 .
3 The proportion of all families headed by a lone parent has increased from 8 per cent in 1971 to 16 per cent in 1988 .
4 The percentage of people aged 65 and over living alone has increased from 10 per cent in 1945 to 36 per cent in 1985 , while the percentage of those living with others has decreased from 60 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period .
5 Fiegehen ( 1986 ) reports that the share of total disposable personal income ( TDPI ) attributable to pensioners has increased from 7 per cent in 1951 to 15 per cent in 1984/85 .
6 This has increased from 7 per cent of the workforce in 1929 to 19 per cent in 1980 in the United States .
7 The Pru 's share of this market has increased from 1 per cent three years ago to 5 per cent now .
8 However cases of AIDS acquired through heterosexual contact has increased from one per cent to four per cent of all sufferers .
9 The number of women registered has increased from 18 per cent .
10 According to UK market researcher Romtec , the number of units being sold direct as a percentage of the total market has increased from 12 per cent in 1990 to 39 per cent in 1992 .
11 After decades of decline , the United Kingdom 's share of manufactured exports of developed nations has increased from 7.5 per cent .
12 In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent .
13 Indeed , this has already been observed in Scandinavia and North America : for example , Cogbill and Likens ( 1974 ) suggest that the proportion contributed by nitrates has increased from 22 per cent in the mid 1950s to its present value of over 30 per cent .
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