Example sentences of "were [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have now got superior 4 × 4 transmissions , diff locks and the rest , and doubtless would leave the Trooper literally standing when the chips were down off-road . |
| 2 | The car market has been similarly hit by deferred purchases : car sales in April this year were down 24% on April 1990 . |
| 3 | Net earnings per share were down 50% to $0.04 in the quarter , and amounted to $0.34 in the nine months . |
| 4 | You were down Ursula 's this morning were n't you ? |
| 5 | Imports were down 15% at $4,125m . |
| 6 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 7 | Hit by the effects of world recession , turnover in 1991 was 42% down on the previous year from £14.59 million to £8.3 million while interim figures were down 39% from £4.9 million in June ‘ 91 to £3 million in June ‘ 92 , resulting in a loss per share of 3.51p . |
| 8 | Net earnings were down 40% at £39m . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 yesterday after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 10 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 last week after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 11 | Iomega Corp has reported first quarter net profits down 32.7% at $1.2m after a gain of $2.3m from an accounting change and a restructuring charge of $982,000 , on turnover that rose 11.8% at $37.0m.Net earnings per share were off 27% at $0.08 . |
| 12 | Moya conceded that hardware sales had plummeted , but he said that RISC workstations , software and in particular services — revenues here were up 50% — had all shown growth . |
| 13 | The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products . |
| 14 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 15 | Revenues from this were up 77% to £37.2m , while pre-tax profits grew 92% to £7.8 . |
| 16 | The company noted that its sales of application software were up 12% , while sales in other areas such as its engineering systems business , were down . |
| 17 | Exports were up 4% at $2,787 . |
| 18 | Well every , you know erm I can remember the time er when I first went and they used to have silver er plated of course , silver plated water jugs on the counter and silver plated sugar bowls with tongs and loaf sugar for people to use and of course well and when you see the war came along , you see , they were all taken away because , you see , we had troop trains we were up day and night so the troops with tea . |
| 19 | I used to help of course and we were up day and night . |
| 20 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 21 | It has been forced to slash prices , with the result that profits dropped 11 per cent to £62 million in the six months to June — even though sales were up £120 million . |
| 22 | Pub trade was reported to be quiet , though stronger trade was reported at W&D 's Milestone Restaurants and Taverns where profits were up 23% . |
| 23 | Advanced Micro shares were up $3.125 or 13.5% , at $27.375 . |
| 24 | Advanced Micro shares were up $3.125 or 13.5% , at $27.375 . |
| 25 | Looking at telecommunications alone , it gets worse still : the production figure is down 27% and the market figure down 30% ; however , exports were up 19% here . |
| 26 | Although overall revenues here were up 11% to £172.3m , after adjustment for exchange rates , they remained virtually unchanged . |
| 27 | South-west England recorded a 38pc drop , Wales and south-east England each dropped 22pc while in Scotland where the recession began later failures were up 16pc and there was a 3pc increase in north and north-west England . |
| 28 | Sales for the fiscal third quarter were up 6% — but that is down mainly to favourable currency translations , and while the loss of $30m is a big step in the right direction , it was still slightly worse than Wall Street estimates , and analysts were particularly disappointed with the low turnover growth . |
| 29 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 30 | The Irish state telephone monopoly Telecom Eireann has denied a report in the Irish Times that it is up for sale , but shares in Cable & Wireless Plc were up sevenpence at 721p yesterday morning on news it is in talks about possibly buying a 25% stake in the Irish phone company . |