Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] [noun] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | FileNet Corp has reported first quarter net profits down 90% at $200,000 on turnover flat at $34.7m ; net earnings per share declined by 89% to $0.2 . |
2 | AST Research Inc has reported third quarter net profits down 34% at $11.0m on turnover that soared 53.3% at $370.2m ; nine-month net profit fell 33.3% at $33.3m on turnover that climbed 84.6% at $1,002.9m ; net earnings per share fell 34% to $0.35 in the quarter , 33% to $1.05 in the nine months . |
3 | In the event , as we saw earlier , this did not appear ; there was merely condemnation of attacks on shipping moving to and from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
4 | That is not conducive to recovery and nor is the practice of children running up and down wards for hours on end . |
5 | For example home help was costed at £2.92 per hour in Ipswich , and £4.17 in Newham ; most day care in Ipswich was provided in Residential Homes which was calculated as involving no extra cost unless transport was provided , whereas in Newham day care was usually provided in day centres , involving a cost of just under £5 per day on top of the cost of transportation ( see Appendix IV . |
6 | ‘ Under 13pc of income on average was spent on initial mortgage repayments in Northern Ireland in comparison with nearly 18pc for the UK as a whole . ’ |
7 | About 4km ( 2½miles ) further east of Huttwil on road 23 is the village of Huswil , where there is an eighteenth-century granary , typical of the region , but particularly renowned for its handsomely carved door . |
8 | Informix Corp had a good one , reporting fourth quarter net profits up 166% at $22.2m on turnover that rose 78.5% at $96.0m . |
9 | Intel Corp shares were bouncing late Tuesday , closing up $4.375 at $101.375 on excitement generated by a suggestion from Alex Brown & Sons analyst Erik Jansen that he believed Intel was negotiating to use an IBM Corp chip plant in order to boost production of 80486 and Pentium computer . |
10 | Acorn Computer Group Plc has reported net — and pre-tax — profits for the year to December 31 up 378% at £1.3m on turnover that rose 17.6% at £48.2m . |
11 | NetFrame Systems Inc has reported first quarter net profits up 359% at $1.8m on turnover that rose 71.1% at $13.6m . |
12 | Exhaust giant Kwik-Fit was also ahead , up 5p at 101p on talk of a bid from Kingfisher , owner of Woolies . |
13 | Cray Research Inc has reported first quarter net profits up 287% at $15.0m on turnover that rose 39.6% at $202.6m ; net per share 314% to $0.58 . |
14 | Hewlett-Packard Co came out with fiscal second quarter figures showing net profits up 40% at $326m on turnover up 12% at $4,183m , and reported that orders grew by 11% over the second quarter of fiscal 1991 at $4,183m . |
15 | The tobacco industry therefore spends about £2 per head on advertising for each person in the province whereas the Agency has less than 70p per head to spend on promoting all aspects of health such as nutrition , alcohol and sexual health . |
16 | It is also worth noting that wherever a manager 's utility " depends partly upon income , a bonus scheme of the Finsinger-Vogelsang type is likely to improve performance , whereas other controls we have discussed ( e.g. rate of return on capital ) need not improve efficiency . |
17 | I 'm a bit too frugal to splash out masses of cash on designer clothes . |
18 | Imaging is able to define a mass lesion in about 40% of cases on ultrasound and 70% by computed tomography scanning in patients with extrahepatic biliary obstruction . |
19 | Unfortunately , there is sometimes resistance among staff on inpatient units to admitting patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric illness , but who for a brief period of time need to hand over responsibility for their well-being to the inpatient clinical team . |
20 | Fill it up with diesel , and it should reward you with a return of comfortably over miles per gallon on average . |