Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Appeals director Charles Holden said the planned pit closures will reduce the charity 's income by £175,000 through lost donations from miners . |
2 | ITV is this weekend expected to sign a deal believed to involve about £3m for exclusive coverage of the British astronaut project , the Juno mission , writes Mary Fagan . |
3 | £3m for dead AIDS woman |
4 | But the magistrate awarded De Pace £800 compensation for anxiety and sleepless nights , £74 for dental bills and £640 legal costs . |
5 | The healing rates achieved by a six to eight week treatment of erosive reflux oesophagitis are about 50% for potent histamine H 2 receptor antagonists ( for example , ranitidine ( 150–300 mg twice daily ) ) and up to 90% for omeprazole , a proton pump inhibitor . |
6 | These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins . |
7 | But this goat , which is kept with the sheep for similar reasons , has to be separated . |
8 | Last year , thanks to costly stars , the average film cost $26.8m to make and a further $11.6m to launch — plus , say , another $10m for overseas marketing . |
9 | Mr Richard Collin , director of central services , said the council had set aside £2.3m. for bad debts this year , but the actual figure was likely to be £4.1m . |
10 | The probes used for indirect end labelling were : Ea 695 bp ( Figure 4b ) , and 5'Ea 1.1 kb ( Figure 4A ) ( See Figure 4D for exact location ) . |
11 | Operators earn 28p a minute for peak rate calls and 16p for cheap , with British Telecom charging the person who is responsible for the bill whether he made the call or not . |
12 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |
13 | Labour calculated this included a loss of £3.07 for National Insurance payments , £2.31 on MIRAS ( tax relief on interest payments on home loans up to £30,000 ) , £1.87 on married couples ' allowances , £1.03 on VAT on fuel , 43p on single per-son 's income tax , 23p on vehicle excise duty and 63p on excise duties . |
14 | The UMW was fined more than $65,000,000 for strike-related activities ; the bulk of this sum remained unpaid at the time of the resolution of the dispute . |
15 | From there we go to Corgarff Castle near Strathdon , a 16th-century tower house converted into a barracks for Hanoverian troops in 1748 . |
16 | Predicted opening prices ranged from 128p for Northumbrian Water , 127p for Thames , 126p for Southern , 126p for Wessex , 125p for Severn Trent , 125p for Anglian , 124p for Yorkshire , 124p for Welsh , 123p for South West and 122p for North West . |
17 | Symptoms and signs had a sensitivity and specificity of upper gastrointestinal disease of 50% and 83% respectively , and 44% and 80% for colonic disease . |
18 | Currently independent software vendors that want to build applications pay $15,000 , and hardware vendors building Distributed Computing Environment code into their operating systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
19 | Currently ISVs that want to build applications pay $15,000 , and hardware vendors implementing DCE code into their operating systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
20 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
21 | From Moscow , Mr Gorbachev is believed to have given personal orders that his troops should stay firmly in their East German barracks during recent demonstrations and not respond to local provocation . |
22 | There were also regular conferences at headquarters for divisional controllers and further coordinating meetings for other divisional officers , with whom their headquarters functional equivalents liked to maintain direct contact . |
23 | This is expandable to 1MB for high resolution 256 colour support if required . |
24 | LORD Hanson , the crafty deal-maker who three months ago clinched Britain 's biggest takeover bid by paying £3.3billion for Consolidated Gold Fields , yesterday confounded the City with the £420million sale of a US offshoot . |
25 | Approximately 1,250 pages of new information were produced by 3.5 typists , and this involved a lot of unpaid overtime as it was supported with a mere extra £1,000 for limited additional typing help . |
26 | GENEROUS donors shocked at the sudden death of a little girl have raised more than £1,000 for vitally-needed equipment . |
27 | WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period . |
28 | Eddie Moore , our Church Officer , gave up a week of his holiday — and raised over £1,000 for Christian Aid , from the records and stamps , professionally prepared for us by Laurie Bruce and Scott Anderson . |
29 | The crisis-hit jewellery firm were fined £1,000 for false labelling — and asked for time to pay . |
30 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |