Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right Ann first ? |
| 2 | There was no question of saying to myself ‘ better luck next time ’ — there might not have been a next time . |
| 3 | The result of the vote taken last week was relayed to SO management last Friday . |
| 4 | ‘ What , only February thirteenth ! |
| 5 | I am going round about Whitsun , perhaps May 20th … ’ |
| 6 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 7 | Although Britain 's hungry kids munched their way through enough Big Macs and French fries to boost turnover by 8% to £480m , profits at the 431-strong outfit crashed 44% to only £19m last year . |
| 8 | So Fred first of all two recommendations from you please . |
| 9 | The yield to maturity on the active-issues index of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette , a Wall Street brokerage , fell below 19% last month for the first time since September . |
| 10 | News of the deal accompanied annual results for Lex showing pre-tax profits soaring from only £500,000 last time to £28.3 million on a normalised basis , after big changes in the group . |
| 11 | Germany 's imports from France rose by only 7% last year in D-mark terms , well down from the 13% average rise in 1988 and 1989 , even as the rate of growth in France 's imports from Germany slumped from 15% to 1% . |
| 12 | House moves fell from a peak of 2.3m in 1989 to only 1m last year , but a recovery to 1.3m has been predicted for the current year . |
| 13 | So logic first erm point three . |
| 14 | So phones last night but the reception was very bad . |
| 15 | Right so Nick first , he represents biology and the future and you 've probably got all these things . |
| 16 | She turned a naked somersault in his lap , bouncing lightly off the cabin wall to return slowly feet first , straddling him , locking them together . |
| 17 | CBA has about 40 staff , all of which will keep their jobs , and generated revenues of approximately £4.8m last year . |
| 18 | The West European market for computer products and services will grow by about 4.3% in 1993 and 6.8% in 1994 , according to Bruno Lamborghini , president of the Eurobit industry group , which presented the study to a conference in Brussels : market growth was 14.2% in 1989 and 8.9% in 1990 , slowing to 4.3% in 1991 and just 3% last year , having topped 15% for most of the 1980s . |
| 19 | The best fitting second order polynomial accounts for only 0.056 percent of the variance in this case , no improvement on the fit given by a straight line ( r(46)=0.24 ) . |
| 20 | Seagate Technology Inc saw third quarter net profits down 4.1% at $39.0m after pre-tax restructuring charges of $15m this time , $18m last , on turnover down 3.3% to $754.1m ; net for the nine months was $161.9m , up from just $3.9m last time , which came after a $33.9m pre-tax restructuring charge , on turnover that rose 8.5% to $2,273m . |
| 21 | Datapoint Corp has reported second quarter net profit of $1.9m , after a $722,000 tax credit , up from just $136,000 last time , on sales that fell 14.3% at $54.3m ; mid-term net profit rose 278% at $2.0m after tax credits of $1.2m this time , $861,000 last , on sales down 4.5% at $114.8m . |
| 22 | The computer unit that is being closed had sales of just $169m last year , down from about $1,200m at its peak , shortly before Prime completed a hostile takeover of the original Computervision company back in early 1988 . |
| 23 | Investment in start-ups and in early stage developments has been particularly badly hit , down from £128m in 1990 to just £58m last year . |
| 24 | Its US business was profitable in fiscal 1991-92 , where it lost money the previous year , said Bernard Chapot , vice president-director general , and its revenues this fiscal year should top $40m , from approximately $39.5m last year . |
| 25 | He is trying to reschedule his £1.2 billion of debts after the net worth of his Heron group tumbled from £585m to just £100m last year . |
| 26 | Shares have slumped from nearly £4 apiece at their peak five years to ago to just 9p last night . |
| 27 | The slump in household saving , from 14% of disposable income in 1980 to just 5% last year , was partly to blame for the rise in inflation that now plagues the government . |
| 28 | Kendall Square Research Corp has reported a first quarter net profit of $250,000 against a loss last time of $4.5m , on turnover of $11.4m against just $1.9m last time ; net earnings per share were $0.02 . |
| 29 | Phoenix Technologies Ltd has reported a second quarter net profit of $1.2m , up from just $38,000 last time , on turnover that rose 5.0% at $17.0m ; mid-term net rose 266% at $2.3m on turnover that rose 4.7% at $35.8m . |
| 30 | Uzzell is targeting a 25% growth in turnover for wholesale finance , from approximately £45m last year to about $56m in 1993 . |