Example sentences of "it made [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 2 | The company 's most profitable year was 1990 when it made $7,246,667 , compared to $4,058,160 in 1989 . |
| 3 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then , it made £9m on sales of £223m . |
| 6 | It made £818,000 before tax in 1992 on turnover which rose from £12.3 million to £13 million . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
| 9 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 10 | Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 14 | It made people go crazy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It made £62,000 ( $113,150 ; est. £70,000–100,000 ) . |