Example sentences of "[n mass] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | By billing different companies for the same visit to the same city , and padding each bill , Roscoe managed to clear $150,000 in income last year , $100,000 the year before . |
| 2 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 3 | But the big spend as the group sorts out its core operations has already meant an increase in borrowing which have risen to £21m at the end of September compared with £160m the year before . |
| 4 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 5 | SOUTHERN Electricity has bought Thermal Transfer ( Holdings ) , an environmental control systems business with sales of more than £15m a year . |
| 6 | Three-times world champion Ayrton Senna would give up £12million a year just to get behind the wheel for nothing . |
| 7 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 8 | In December 1980 the government announced that a further 192 non-departmental bodies were to be wound up by 1983 , bringing the total savings up to about 23m a year by 1983 . |
| 9 | Budhoo was allegedly on short rations from the honeypot because of his intransigence , but he nevertheless pulled $143,000 a year in salary and other subsidies , excluding those related to official travel and mission work . |
| 10 | County council funds used to operate Greystones which costs £294,000 a year to run will be switched to helping the residents and respite care users . |
| 11 | The unit in question , for what Telekom calls Systems Customers , is part of its Business Customers division , and was established as part of the thorough restructuring Telekom has set in train ; it serves 500 major companies and organisations , and its business is growing at 13% to 14% a year , against less than 5% overall growth from private customers in 1992 . |
| 12 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 13 | Woburn Abbey has a straw-fired boiler which pumps hot water around the estate with savings of over £20,000 every year . |
| 14 | Richard Collin , the authority 's director of central services , says this would boost the council 's coffers by more than £20,000 every year . |
| 15 | BBC1 accounted for almost 39pc of viewing in the last quarter of 1990 , but that figure had dropped to 34pc a year later . |
| 16 | In approving the scheme members authorised officers to seek funding for the extra facilities and running costs which are estimated to cost £2,280 a year . |
| 17 | He only has specific proposals for 10% of the total entitlement spending cap , yet the across the board tax rate cuts would lose $25bn a year in revenue for each percentage point reduced , and conservatives are calling for a three point cut . |
| 18 | On its preferred scenario C , the board 's argument is that Sizewell will save it £47 million , £76M , or £102M a year ( NECs of — £43 , — £69 , or — £93/kilowatt/ year , depending on the extent of nuclear capacity assumed in the plant background mix ) . |
| 19 | If the Soviet Union were included , the total should be doubled to $15billion a year . |
| 20 | With currency debasement of 9% a year since 1972 , GEC 's cash mountain lost purchasing power at nearly 92 £150m a year for 20 years . |
| 21 | The Premier League , rather than seek one major sponsor , have been looking towards the World Cup/European Championship idea of group backers who could contribute around £25m a year . |
| 22 | Behr employs more than 9,000 people in the manufacture of car heating and air conditioning and engine cooling systems for a host of class motoring firms including BMW , Mercedes-Benz , Porsche and Volkswagen and has a turnover of £460m a year . |
| 23 | That 's helped the company , facing losses of £98,000 a year ago , turn in £401,000 in profits . |
| 24 | As the Polish computer market is valued at around $360m a year , the latter condition is not likely to prove significant . |
| 25 | Payments will range from £200-4,000 a year , depending on the size of the area concerned . |
| 26 | CONVICTED Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky , who once commanded a $1 billion war chest , is suing his wife for $1m a year in alimony to bolster his sagging finances . |
| 27 | It estimates that there are at least 150,000 photocopiers in use on copy-plan contracts in the UK , and that the whole photocopier industry is worth more than £1.2bn and increasing at between 5% and 25% a year . |
| 28 | The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago . |
| 29 | Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year . |
| 30 | Only this year will revenues from its open system products begin to outstrip sales of Cyber kit , even though mainframe revenues are decreasing by around 25% a year and sales of open systems rising by some 100% a year . |