Example sentences of "[vb past] the bulk of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year it made the bulk of the MMB 's profits with £45.5m after charges of £14.4m , but before £21m exceptional items . |
| 2 | At the time of his death obituarists hoped that EMI ( the company for whom Solomon made the bulk of his commercial recordings ) would at least reissue his classic accounts of the Beethoven sonatas . |
| 3 | They were among those few who controlled or owned the bulk of the country 's wealth and influence . |
| 4 | In 1692 , however , he sold the bulk of his holdings and the right of proprietorship to a syndicate of forty-eight London merchants , the West New Jersey Society , for £9,800 . |
| 5 | The world trade in manufactured goods doubled between 1900 and 1913 , and Europe still produced the bulk of what was sold . |
| 6 | Thereafter , apart from a small private income , he subsisted on a university pension for a further ten years , during which time he produced the bulk of his philosophical works , at that time largely unknown , until in January 1889 all creative work ended abruptly with his mental breakdown ; he died in 1900 . |
| 7 | We both got legacies , and she got the bulk of the estate for her lifetime . |
| 8 | ‘ He had experience in administering effectively a large public museum ; he has demonstrated skills in fund-raising ; and thirdly , we get the bulk of our annual budget from Congress , and Rusty got the bulk of his budget ( $15 million a year ) from the Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles and showed great skill in dealing with them . |
| 9 | Because of the show 's alternation between historical tales and science fiction adventures , it happened that Barry Newbery wound up doing most of the stories in Earth 's past , while Raymond Cusick got the bulk of the sf material — an on-going process that tested his imagination to the limits . |
| 10 | Stalin particularly resented the Anglo-American failure to open a ‘ Second Front ’ in western Europe before June 1944 , suspecting this was a deliberate attempt to bleed Russia white as she fought the bulk of the German army . |
| 11 | Although the imperial and colonial railway companies discovered that Indians and Africans desired to travel in large numbers and contributed the bulk of passenger earnings , little money was spent on their comforts . |
| 12 | A RISE in production from interests in UK oilfields contributed the bulk of improved earnings by Premier Consolidated Oilfields , which yesterday reported a rise of 27 per cent to £15.1 million in profit after payment of tax for 1992 . |
| 13 | Although he was still away fairly often , visiting the mills in Leeds and Bradford which provided the bulk of his income , he was more relaxed now that he felt that he was mastering the intricacies of the various businesses which had been allowed to slip into low productivity during his father 's ill-health . |
| 14 | It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup . |
| 15 | Furthermore , confidence in the exchange value of the dollar was essential since it provided the bulk of the reserve assets in the system : any devaluation of the dollar would give rise to fears that it might be devalued again , and hence there would be a reluctance to hold dollars as a reserve currency . |
| 16 | Essentially Glasgow and Edinburgh were the two towns which provided the bulk of the membership and carried the burden of administration . |
| 17 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 18 | In the longer term the problems arose from a combination of factors including the economic recession ( which had badly affected the revenues from corporate , property and sales taxes which provided the bulk of state incomes ) , the legal obligation of states to balance their budgets , the recent trend of the Reagan and Bush administrations to transfer financial obligations from central to local government , and a rapid escalation in the demands on welfare and prison programmes . |
| 19 | However , these organisations drew the bulk of their support from the Marcher territories , where anti-Semitism took second place to the fight against Polish influence . |
| 20 | More importantly , they led to the establishment of a German confederation of 39 states which retained the bulk of sovereign power . |
| 21 | The agency won the business in 1985 when it snatched the bulk of it from Leo Burnett . |
| 22 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 23 | Their particular contributions are special to them because they were aware of the religious nature of their activities , but it is the actions of millions of people outside the specifically religious scene who , in their everyday lives , have in all probability created the bulk of the vast store of ‘ units of goodness ’ by their numerous kindly acts . |
| 24 | Dr Owen said : ‘ The Pakistani population arrived after the Indians and found the bulk of its employment in the North . ’ |
| 25 | As a loss maker , Provincial received the bulk of its income from grants from the PTEs , and from the government in the form of the Public Service Obligation ( PSO ) . |
| 26 | They also attracted the bulk of the immigrants . |
| 27 | The Hastings fraternity attracted the bulk of their attention . |
| 28 | Many observers have noted how administration in new states consumed the bulk of revenue at the expense of investment and development ( Dumont 1966 ; First 1970 ; Bretton 1973 ; Amin 1973 ) . |
| 29 | Then came the bulk of the PR conversion with twelve PR.3 navexs , high level photo and low level trips with targets . |
| 30 | SHARES in American computer companies Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard soared yesterday after a judge rejected the bulk of a $5½ billion ( £3 billion ) lawsuit filed by one of their rivals , Apple Computer . |