Example sentences of "made a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who bought Dixons traded options on Tuesday and sold once news of the bid was released yesterday made a 100 per cent profit in 24 hours . |
| 2 | Rogue yeasts can reduce a year 's output to paint stripper , and a musty barrel can made a hundred gallons of evil-smelling vinegar overnight . |
| 3 | Postage , stationery , fourteen O six raffle tickets , eleven pound , making a total of two thirty twenty six as against on the other side the income , three ninety six so we made a hundred and sixty six pound on on the open show which is a great increase on last year because last year we only made twelve pounds something twelve pound and a penny we made last year , so this is a great increase . |
| 4 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 5 | During the year the subsidiary made a 1 for 2 rights issue priced at £4 per ordinary £1 share . |
| 6 | he made a fifty that day , lifted his bat above his head and had a heart attack . ’ |
| 7 | I made a thirty four thousand pound profit at the end of March , and then Trevor gave me a bill for fifty six thousand |
| 8 | In his dreams , Boyd Stych made a million for his son out of forty-storey apartment blocks , and was chased by a flying book the name of which he could not see . |
| 9 | Former neighbour Alan Bott , a director of P & O Containers said : ‘ We heard he had made a million , lost a million and made a million again . ’ |
| 10 | He once shocked Bonar Law , who took a rather more respectful view of money matters , by saying that ‘ a man who made a million quick ought to be not in the Lords but in gaol ’ . |
| 11 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 12 | Nearly 12 hours later , he did sink it and then made a four at the 15th to keep in touch with Parry . |
| 13 | Paula : I made a four . |
| 14 | Paula copied the shape and said , ‘ I made a four and a P ’ . |
| 15 | In nineteen ninety two , three , er , we made er , we made a four percent reduction in economic development , a , a , about erm , about fifty thousand pounds . |
| 16 | They made a four all draw and I think they 've still got the video now on television of the match . |
| 17 | The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) . |
| 18 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 19 | M. Marc Laurent , principal of the French college , and M. Phillipe Vergote , information technology co-ordinator , made a three day visit Darlington to hold talks with Mr Peter Shuker , college principal and Mr Byrne . |
| 20 | Worcestershire made a 117 for 1 off 31 overs , to win by 9 wickets . |
| 21 | Since that day in August when he had first visited the house up the valley , he had , during the past ten weeks , made a dozen return visits . |
| 22 | I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself . |
| 23 | I was recently given permission to search a derelict town house and made a 50/50 agreement with the owner as to the value of any finds . |
| 24 | A FINANCIER who made a billion when the pound collapsed yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 25 | THE financier who made a billion when Chancellor Lamont lost the battle for the pound yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 26 | His gamble made a billion dollars , £666 million . |
| 27 | Mitre , based in Huddersfield , had sales of £15m last year and made a 1990 profit of £1.7m . |
| 28 | She made a twenty pound donation back to the village hall the clerk was to send a letter of thanks . |
| 29 | Why should teachers have to submit to an incomes policy when the bosses made a 22.7 per cent . |
| 30 | In 1967 he made a gross , slap-and-tickle version of ‘ The Taming of the Shrew ’ with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . |