Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] have rise [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas 106.7 boys were born for every 100 girls in 1985 , by 1990 the figure for boys had risen to 110.3 . |
| 2 | Aided by substantial tax relief on house mortgages , the proportion of owner-occupiers had risen from 29.5 per cent of dwellings in 1951 to 52.8 per cent at the end of 1975 . |
| 3 | Over the same period , the share of beers has risen from 53.8% to 565% and the share of wines , cider and perry from 17.3% to 19.7% . |
| 4 | It is worth noticing that since the Government came to power , pensioners ' income from savings has risen by 8.6 per cent . |
| 5 | The number of investors has risen from 26,618 at the end of 1989 . |
| 6 | Yesterday several North-East councils said the number of electors has risen despite voters trying to avoid paying the poll tax . |
| 7 | The number of shareholders has risen from 7 per cent to 24 per cent of the adult population . |
| 8 | By 1988 the total number of countries had risen to 129 , split into 39 low-income , 34 lower-middle , 24 upper-middle , 4 high-income oil exporters , 19 industrial market , and 9 centrally-planned economies , renamed ‘ nonreporting nonmembers ’ ( aptly , as there was . |
| 9 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
| 10 | The total number of tenants had risen from 125 to 153 ; the number of wealthier farmers remained steady , but the poorer section had increased considerably . |
| 11 | On April 8 the governor of the south-eastern region , Hayri Kozacioglu , estimated that the total number of refugees had risen to 400,000 . |
| 12 | By 1984 the number of airlines had risen from 36 to 120 , fares were down 30 per cent , and passengers use was up 50 per cent . |
| 13 | In England in 1970 , there were 232 hospitals with 59,000 beds , an average of 250 beds per hospital ; in 1976 , the number of hospitals had risen to 275 but the numbers of beds had fallen to 53,000 , an average of under 200 beds per hospital . |