Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC claims its UK workstation business will grow at a compound annual rate of 2% or 3% for the next few years , and ambitiously predicts its will overhaul Sun to become market leader by 1995/96 . |
| 2 | Egypt announced that its earnings from tourism fell by more than 50% in the first four months of the year , following a terrorism campaign by Islamic fundamentalists . |
| 3 | The Welsh FA have signed a sponsorship deal with Welsh Brewers Ltd which could net them more than £100,000 over the next three years . |
| 4 | Sunderland made a profit of more than £500,000 in the last financial year , which finished with a Wembley final appearance . |
| 5 | It was a large basement , with no street-level exposure , and although sales for the first two days were excitingly high , the next few months were a disaster . |
| 6 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 7 | The decision to put the technology division up for sale marks an about-turn for Chrysler which has spent more than $1billion in the last four years on its policy of diversifying out of cars into related areas . |
| 8 | He also noted that sales in the first two months of the year are ahead of company budgets , but this failed to help the shares , which closed 30p lower at 143p , having been down 38p at one stage . |
| 9 | THE GOVERNMENT will spend more than £1bn before the next general election to take the sting out of the poll tax . |
| 10 | At that meeting he will be able to announce to clubs that ITV has agreed to pay more than £7m over the next four years , an extension of a contract in which it paid £10.5m over five years . |
| 11 | Average milk yields nationally have increased by more than 1,000kg in the last 25 years as the result of a very high usage of artificial insemination and milk recording nationwide , and more recently an increasing interest in embryo transfer as well . |
| 12 | Workers are only too aware that Ford of Britain 's pre-tax profits doubled to more than £673m in the last financial year and they feel they ought to share in its success . |
| 13 | Mr Atkinson said the work would cost £60m over the first four years and between £11m and £15m over the next nine years . |
| 14 | He would undoubtedly have watched with anxiety the growing troubles over finance and staff during the next ten years and , by 1722 , the abandonment of the Garden was a possibility . |
| 15 | If sales for the last four months were 42 , 36 , 41 , 45 units respectively , the forecast for next month would be ( ( 42+36+41+45 ) divided by 4 ) =41 units . |
| 16 | The breakdown of the prize-money for the event was £1,000 per hole for the first nine holes and £2,000 for the second nine holes , plus £250 for every birdie and £500 for every eagle . |
| 17 | Todd reckons that Christie can gross between £1 and £4million over the next four years . |
| 18 | The rates payable per hectare ( last reviewed in January 1980 ) are £30.56 , £20.67 and £10.52 over the first three years of the plan , respectively . |
| 19 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 20 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 21 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |