Example sentences of "for [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson has poured money into his airline since selling Virgin Music to Thorn EMI for £560million in March . |
| 2 | It claims to be the athletics network , having bought exclusive rights to the sport in Britain for £10.5m in 1985 . |
| 3 | B&C acquired Atlantic for £420m in September 1988 , but by April 1990 the company which had been audited by Spicers ( now part of Touche Ross ) between 1983 and June 1989 went into administration . |
| 4 | Brent Walker bought Whyte & Mackay from Lonrho earlier this year for £180m in a deal that included four French vineyards , which are also for sale for as much as £60m . |
| 5 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , made an appeal to the international community on Dec. 5 for $13,800,000 in humanitarian aid to assist the estimated 350,000 Liberians in the war-ravaged capital , Monrovia , who were in urgent need of food and medical aid . |
| 6 | The 68360 is available now in 240 pin-count quad flatpack for $49.90 in 10,000-up quantities . |
| 7 | Did Siemens AG buy a pig in a poke — the German 's , ever literal , call it a cat in a sack , which of course is what a pig in a poke usually turns out to be — when it bought Atlantic Richfield Co 's Arco Solar Power subsidiary in Camarillo , California for $35.9m in 1990 ? |
| 8 | President Bush had rejected Chamorro 's request for $40,000,000 in emergency aid on May 16 . |
| 9 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 10 | The government appealed for $273,000,000 in external aid at the launch of its emergency relief programme for 1989/90 at a meeting with international donors in Luanda on Sept. 21-22 , 1989 . |
| 11 | The applicants in these two summonses , the City of Glasgow District Council ( ‘ Glasgow ’ ) , have been sued in two separate actions by Barclays Bank Plc. and Kleinwort Benson Ltd. respectively ( ‘ the banks ’ ) , in the case of Barclays for £389,431 in relation to sums paid under one single interest rate swap agreement , and in the case of Kleinwort Benson for £807,230.31 in relation to sums paid under seven interest rate swap agreements . |
| 12 | SPARCSTATION-2 CLONE , WITH VIKING CPU , FOR £8,000 IN UK |
| 13 | With a core business in place , Mr Wilbraham sold the original Tace businesses for £6.5m in November last year and Don Hammond moved across to Ptarmigan , the purchaser . |
| 14 | It sells for £84.99 in the shops . |
| 15 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 16 | x from SunSoft and will sell for $630 in quantities of 100 kits a month . |
| 17 | ERSKINE HOUSE TO GO TO ALCO STANDARD FOR £67.4m IN CASH |
| 18 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 19 | His lawyer filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles city for $56,000,000 in damages . |
| 20 | Thus the church and its site were purchased for £20,000 in 1979 by Waverly District Council , while the adjacent church hall was sold off separately by the local diocese for conversion into two small private dwellings . |
| 21 | The sum of £250,000 has already been allocated to a number of projects , ranging from the purchase of Porthor in North Wales to the restoration of Biddulph Grange Garden where BBC gardening expert Geoff Hamilton accepted a cheque for £20,000 in May . |
| 22 | STANDARD Chartered yesterday announced plans to sell the bulk of its continental banking operations for £150m in a pan-European tie-up with Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale . |
| 23 | He put the Old Rectory at Stoney Stanton , Blaby , Leicestershire , on the market for £325,000 in 1990 but it sold for £239,000 — a 25 per cent drop . |
| 24 | The ex-Tory MP , whose high interest rate policy caused mortgage misery for millions , put the house , in Leicestershire , on the market for £325,000 in 1990 . |
| 25 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 26 | She flogged off her remaining 9% stake for £100,000 in February . |
| 27 | The record damages were awarded against PW over its 1985 and 1986 audits of United Bancorp , an Arizona bank which SC acquired for $335m in 1987 . |
| 28 | LSI is making the single-chip L 64831 , designed specifically for uniprocessors , available as a separate product either surface mounted for $168 or CPGA for $206 in 100 quantities . |
| 29 | Plants can be bought in tens of thousands for 50 cents each in Bangkok , and sold for $10-$15 in the West . |
| 30 | On 9 December , a Philips Koninck landscape is being offered ( est. £1–1.5 million ; $1.7–2.55 million ) , purchased by the Second Viscount Palmerston for £34 in 1788 , and on 25 November , a charming portrait by Anders Zorn of Maud Cassell , mother of Lord Mountbatten 's wife Edwina ( est. £100,000–150,000 ; $170,000–255,000 ) . |