Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 42,000 pupils in independent schools were assisted from public funds , amounting in all to some £11m. each year . |
| 2 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 3 | In the south-east of Scotland ( 11 ) a system based on the annual rotation of sheep , hay and cattle or simply alternating cattle and sheep each year to provide ‘ clean ‘ grass has demonstrated impressive increases in production . |
| 4 | The prospect of exporting live horses for meat still causes a greater outcry than the continued export of half a million live British sheep each year . |
| 5 | Approach is expected to have sales of nearly $20m this year ; it was founded in 1990 by former executives of Claris and Oracle Corp . |
| 6 | Though EC demand is expected to fall , output from all Japan 's EC factories should rise by over 50% this year , reckons Mr Rhys . |
| 7 | Agreed , the weekend trade is down but residential courses have been up 10% and day courses up 50% this year . |
| 8 | Cellnet made a profit of £106m last year and should nudge Pounds 140m this year . |
| 9 | The number of passengers using the service has grown by just over 16pc this year . |
| 10 | Whitehill Town Council contributed £250 this year and £150 last year towards the upkeep of the grounds . |
| 11 | A combination of tight controls , major capital spending ( it will be £800m this year ) and competitive pricing , the group has widened the gap between itself and its rivals . |
| 12 | Yesterday the deputy principal , Alan Dixon , said the college has earmarked between £15,000 and £20,000 each year to pay for a full time teacher at the Adult Basic Education Unit . |
| 13 | Integrating some of the Public Schools in the way proposed would eventually cost about £12m. each year , and £6.1m. in the short term : these plans would now be in open competition with the proposals of the Newsom and Plowden Reports , at a time when severe economies were being applied to public expenditure . |
| 14 | But there were other , less visible , receipts , such as his pension from Spain , which came to between £1,000 and £1,500 each year . |
| 15 | The London pilot scheme is proving so successful that Ru , 34 , and Nick , 33 , expect to make more than £8,000 this year . |
| 16 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 17 | The draft order for an increase in PLR funding , from £4.74m this year to £5m in 1993–94 , was welcomed generally by the Commons and approved — but not before the two Tory MPs once again expressed their antagonism to the scheme . |
| 18 | It is understood it has budgeted for around £75m this year to deal with the terrorists bombing campaign . |
| 19 | Intel Corp plans to cut prices on its 80486 microprocessors , unveil 25 new variants of its current flagship , and make capital investments totalling $1,600m this year , up from $1,400m in 1992 , company president Andrew Grove told the Wall Street Journal . |
| 20 | Mr Martin predicts that plant capacity will shrink by 3% this year ( compared with a fall of 8% in 1980 ) . |
| 21 | This theme has been clouded by different and even contradictory ideas , such as a stimulus package and an investment tax-credit to pep up an economy that will probably grow by 3% this year . |
| 22 | The promise is to achieve economic growth of over 3% this year while fighting everything from hunger and homelessness to tax dodgers and financial speculators . |
| 23 | That means the economy will grow by less than 3% this year . |
| 24 | He said the Government was funding the association in the first place to the tune of £3.76m this year . |
| 25 | The HeadStart 531 endowment mortgage — as its name implies — allows you to postpone 5% of your endowment mortgage payments this year , 3% next year and 1% in the final year . |
| 26 | ROBERT Clarke , the new chairman of United Biscuits , saw his salary rise from £233,000 to £425,000 last year . |
| 27 | Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 . |
| 28 | Trade between Japan and the Soviet Union slipped 3% last year to a tiny $5.9 billion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Admittedly , Legent made its name as a mainframe software house but , Burton says , the proportion of revenues generated from non-mainframe sales is set to rise from around 25% last year to 40% this year and 50% in 1994 . |