Example sentences of "has taken [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All development is now done on Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC Snake workstations running Unix — SAS has taken $5m worth of the things — the SAS system as a whole now runs to over four million lines of code . |
| 2 | Carlton 's second arm , set up only in September to create a promotional books business for Hodder and Pan Macmillan , has taken £1.5m of orders to date . |
| 3 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |
| 4 | Home Alone 2 has taken £60 million in ticket sales in America in just three weeks . |
| 5 | One year on , the company , which published its first book only in November , has taken £6m worth of orders , and has 1m ( presold ) copies in print . |
| 6 | Since Macaulay 's latest film Home Alone II : Lost In New York was released three days ago it has taken £2.2 million at the box office and a million people have packed cinemas across the country to watch it . |
| 7 | Some dealers in either social camp will risk account-trading for themselves , often in tens of thousands of pounds , as a result of an Harvard Securities PLC , 95 Southwark Street , London SE1 which has taken people off the streets and turned them into high earning dealers , sometimes within weeks . |