Example sentences of "[noun sg] have grown from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 2 | They now have Soviet-made SAM anti-aircraft rockets and AK-47 automatic rifles , and their air force has grown from one ancient DC-3 transport called the Rusty Pelican to a small fleet of light planes and copters … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Enrolments in the private sector have grown from under 14 per cent of total enrolments in 1984 to nearly 20 per cent in 1988 . |
| 6 | CAMRA 's membership has grown from under 20,000 to 30,000 in less than three years . |
| 7 | The stock of dwellings has increased from 19.415 million in 1973 to 21.494 million in 1983 , while population in the same period has grown from 54.671 million to 54.804 million . |
| 8 | Since 1984 , our market capitalisation has grown from under £400 million to approaching £3 billion . |
| 9 | The size of the group has grown from 16,000 to 28,000 staff as its operations have expanded . |
| 10 | The bulk import business has grown from 45,000 tonnes in 1989 to 243,000 tonnes in 1992 with animal feed , milling wheat and malting barley being the main commodities . |
| 11 | The membership had grown from 82 founder members to 253 in 1855 , of which 128 were Fellows and 125 Associates . |
| 12 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 13 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 14 | In his time at WWF , the amount the organisation has raised for conservation has grown from under £1 million to £15 million annually . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The traditional form of interaction with the user is purely through dialogue in which written messages present him with immediately available choices , or ask him to supply values for parameters in the program ; this approach has grown from individual tutorial CAI . |
| 17 | At the time of writing , the church has grown from sixteen adults two years ago to a regular attendance of over 100 . |
| 18 | The Salvation Army had grown from a small backstreet mission in the East End of London to an international organisation . |
| 19 | He earns a bonus of 1 per cent of the rise in the company 's value and Direct Line has grown from virtually nothing in 1985 to be worth around £800 million . |
| 20 | ‘ This whole Unit has grown from the one room originally set aside for road accidents some years ago . |
| 21 | Under this leadership over the past decade the company has grown from being an essentially UK woodworm and pest control company , to an international enterprise with a broad base of environmental services in every major world economy . |
| 22 | Since then the market has grown from £12m to more than £230m , according to industry estimates . |
| 23 | And in that time , the three-bedroomed house has grown from a busy couple 's base to a family home for them and their two-year-old daughter Emily . |
| 24 | Halsey ( 1986 ) suggested that the steady fall in Labour 's percentage share of the vote from 1964 to 1983 was attributable not primarily to people of a given social class voting differently over time , but to a straightforward decline in the working-class population , which affected many parliamentary constituencies : ‘ The dominant class had grown from 18 per cent of the electorate in 1964 to 29 per cent in 1983 while the working-class proportion had dropped from 47 to 31 per cent ’ ( Halsey , 1986 , 88 ) . |