Example sentences of "[noun pl] have grown from " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period the number of book issues sampled from library authorities has grown from 3m to 10.6m . |
| 2 | The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year . |
| 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 | The role of Treasurer over the years has grown from overseeing simple book-keeping to an extensive involvement and the contributions of Leslie Wise , A.J. Chapman , Albert ( Bert ) Ford and currently Jim Grey , have been valuable indeed and it is not surprising that Arthur Chapman felt the work was too demanding for an Honorary Treasurer , although what each does might vary depending on what bias the secretary brings to his post . |
| 5 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |
| 6 | The number of asylum seekers had grown from 5,000 in 1988 to an expected 46,000 in 1991 . |
| 7 | Spanish-speakers have grown from a third of Dade County 's people to just over a half . |
| 8 | The shareholders in Velcro have received no dividends in 1989 and 1990 , despite the fact that pre-tax earnings have grown from $6.3 million in 1988 to $9.4 million in 1990 , and the company is awash in liquidity with marketable securities as of 30 September 1990 worth slightly less than $50 million . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The number claiming help with their rent jumped from 1.4 million to 5 million , and the number gaining help with their rates has grown from 3 million to over 7 million ( again , there is an overlap between these two groups ) . |
| 11 | Pre-tax profits have grown from £2.27 million in 1990 to £8.24 million in the year to last April . |
| 12 | The numbers have grown from next to nothing just 30 years ago . |
| 13 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |
| 14 | Many partnerships have grown from this single root , nourished by central government and funded substantially , through a number of departments ( particularly the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Employment ; not , significantly , the Department of Education and Science ) . |
| 15 | Cash is up from £16m to £24m , and net assets have grown from £145m to £169m . |
| 16 | B. New industries have grown from the textile business . |
| 17 | Most English towns have grown from Anglo-Saxon villages , but , particularly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , landowners were founding new towns all over England — and indeed all over Europe . |
| 18 | It is clear from the table that exports of goods and services have grown from £53 billion in 1977 to £159 billion in 1987 ( with a similar growth in imports ) , i.e. 11 per cent growth each year on average . |
| 19 | In two months my two albino Oscars have grown from 1″ to 3–4″ , feeding well on pellets , until recently . |
| 20 | It takes into account that modern cities have grown from several points , not one and because of this growth and the resulting congestion in the city itself , these nuclei develop out of town shopping centres . |