Example sentences of "have grown from [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bangladesh , suffering a 15% per annum population migration to the cities , coupled with a population which has grown from 75 million to 90 million over the past decade is a further example . |
| 5 | In four years , he has grown from 16 staff to 40 , and plans to add at least 10 a year for the next three years . |
| 6 | At the time of writing , the church has grown from sixteen adults two years ago to a regular attendance of over 100 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The size of the group has grown from 16,000 to 28,000 staff as its operations have expanded . |
| 13 | Since the turn of the century , it has grown from 50,000 people to 14 million . |
| 14 | It 's good news for the workforce , which has grown from 6 when the factory opened in 1987 , to 24 today . |
| 15 | It 's good news for the workforce , which has grown from 6 when the factory opened in 1987 , to 24 today . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Despite having grown from 33 local stations in 1980 to more than 100 now , commercial radio 's share of advertising spending has stayed stuck at 2% . |
| 18 | The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 . |
| 22 | The number of asylum seekers had grown from 5,000 in 1988 to an expected 46,000 in 1991 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The membership had grown from 82 founder members to 253 in 1855 , of which 128 were Fellows and 125 Associates . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |