Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] six months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payments are made half yearly on 30 April and 30 October , based upon production from the Ninian field during the six months ending 31 December and 30 June respectively . |
| 2 | Premium income for the six months was down marginally at [ 1,011.9m ( 1992 : [ 1,021.9m ) as the impact of rate increases across all classes was again more than offset by a lower policy count . |
| 3 | SINGAPORE Para Rubber reported lower profits before tax of £148,000 for the six months to 30 June , compared with £212,000 previously . |
| 4 | Courtaulds turned in pre-tax profits of £96.4m for the six months ended 30 September 1991 , up from £87.1m last year . |
| 5 | JAMES GULLIVER , chairman of the troubled furniture and carpets retailer Lowndes Queensway , yesterday announced ‘ with sadness ’ a £16.9m pre-tax loss for the six months to 30 July . |
| 6 | EIT Group Plc , in administration , has reported a net loss for the six months to September 30 of £966,000 , up from a loss last time of £97,000 , on turnover up 591% at £8.6m . |
| 7 | Johnson Matthey turned in pre-tax profits of £32.6m for the six months to 30 September 1991 , virtually unchanged against the same period in 1990 ( at £32.5m ) , according to chairman David Davies . |
| 8 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |
| 9 | Trace Computers Plc blames the fall in turnover for the six months to November 30 ( figures , see page five ) , on a planned reduction in the scale of its computer supplies business , where turnover fell by nearly £1m ; the company managed to shave £122,000 from its administrative and operating costs ; the original businesses of insurance broking systems , property management systems and bespoke software development have continued to prosper , the company says , and the Proteus distribution systems business , consolidated on its return to profits last year ; Trace Financial also made a small profit and there was interest in the BlueChip stockbroking product ; the group is still investing about £2m a year in research and development — with some contribution from its customers ; the Pink networking technology company had a disappointing half year , turning in a small loss after having made a profit last year . |
| 10 | The Halifax estate agency losses for the six months to 31 July compare with break-even in 1988 . |
| 11 | Lucas Industries Plc saw net losses for the six months to January 31 stood at £4.9m against profits of $77.4m , after £3.5m redundancy and reorganisation costs this time and £15.4m last time , on turnover that rose 11.5% to £1,287m . |
| 12 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 13 | Proteus International , specialists in computer aided molecular modelling and drug design , announced a loss of £1.27m for the six months ended 30 September 1991 , compared with losses of £520000 in the five months to 30 September 1990 . |
| 14 | THE shares of Sage Group jumped 31 to 484p yesterday after the Newcastle-based accounting software supplier unveiled a 44 p.c. rise in pre-tax profits to £4.34m for the six months to end-March . |
| 15 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 16 | MANGANESE Bronze , the black-cab maker , fell from a £287,000 profit to a £492,000 pre-tax loss in the six months to end-January , due largely to losses at its Darlington iron foundry , which is closing at a cost of £1.7m . |
| 17 | SCOTTISH Metropolitan Property tumbled from a £2.72m profit to a £840,000 pre-tax loss in the six months to mid-February , dented by 57 p.c. jump in interest charges to £10.3m , and compensation of £201,881 to former managing director Gordon Milne , and former development director Paul Birch . |
| 18 | This , plus the cost of carrying other unsold flats , helped turn profits of £6.4m into a £21.5m loss in the six months to end-September . |
| 19 | Patients were allocated randomly to receive chemotherapy or only supportive care in a ratio of 2:1 according to performance status , metastatic disease of the liver , and weight loss in the six months before entering the study . |
| 20 | The assignment was determined by randomisation in blocks of six ( as defined by a computer generated random number list ) according to performance status ( score 0–1 v 2–3 ) , metastatic disease of the liver ( assessed by ultrasonography or computed tomography , or both ) , and weight loss in the six months before entering the study . |
| 21 | Cost-cutting helped boost operating profits 78% to £904,000 in the six months to end October . |
| 22 | Interim pre-tax profits rose by an estimated 10 per cent to £17m in the six months to 1 October . |
| 23 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 24 | The impact of the two is underlined by the sharp 24.7 per cent drop in turnover in the six months to 31 December , traditionally CALA 's weaker half . |
| 25 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 26 | A savage price war between European fresh food suppliers depressed a first-time contribution from meat group Sutherland in the six months to September . |
| 27 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 28 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 29 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 30 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |