Example sentences of "it [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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31 | It offers 8,192Mb RAM per unit , with a system maximum of 65,536Mb . |
32 | It offers 2,048Mb maximum RAM and delivers 1,600 MFLOPS and 12,800 MIPS peak . |
33 | It offers 2,048Mb maximum RAM and has 1,600 MFLOPS and 12,800 MIPS . |
34 | MICHELIN , the world 's largest tyre maker , which sounded a warning of the depths of recession when it plunged £527m into the red last year , yesterday surprised the market with an operating profit throughout 1991 . |
35 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
36 | Though it produced data that permits analysis of the impact of child-spacing upon neonatal mortality , unfortunately the WFS did not provide information on fetal mortality . |
37 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
38 | Royal Bank won its first gold star when it lent £70,000 to help Mr Miller , a professional caterer , to buy a restaurant business in Hampstead , north London . |
39 | In the fourth quarter last year Informix had a 25% pre-tax profit and in the recently completed first quarter it posted 23% , White said . |
40 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
41 | The company 's most profitable year was 1990 when it made $7,246,667 , compared to $4,058,160 in 1989 . |
42 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
43 | Before tax , it made £90.4m , down only 4 p.c. , although the slide in earnings per share was steeper at 12 p.c. , to 7.58p fully diluted . |
44 | Then , it made £9m on sales of £223m . |
45 | It made £818,000 before tax in 1992 on turnover which rose from £12.3 million to £13 million . |
46 | Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 . |
47 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
48 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
49 | Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment . |
50 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
51 | It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time . |
52 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
53 | It made people go crazy . |
54 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
55 | It made £62,000 ( $113,150 ; est. £70,000–100,000 ) . |
56 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
57 | When Her Majesty decided that she would not pay poll tax , even though it was supposed to be levied on every adult in the country , it changed people 's thinking , he says . |
58 | Lloyds Bank , which was the first to impose a levy , lost the most customers when it charged £12 for the privilege of owning its card . |
59 | Delta says it was the ‘ destructive acts ’ of the creditors ' committee and its advisers that prevented the reorganisation , and that it provided $115m finance and blames the committee for its losses . |
60 | It incorporates data compression algorithms that are claimed to increase effective throughput of wide area networking links by as much as four times . |