Example sentences of "[no cls] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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1 | Nor can such a power be inferred from , for example , regulation 3C(6) of the 1991 Regulations to which we were referred . |
2 | Switzerland 's wholesale prices rose 0.7% in the 12 months to November . |
3 | We added 5 µmol/ml of a single phospholipids to human biles which contained an average of 21 µmol/ml of various native phospholipids . |
4 | American wholesale prices rose by 3.7% in the 12 months to January — the slowest annual rise for six months . |
5 | France 's broad money grew by 4.8% in the 12 months to March . |
6 | Private-sector bank loans increased by only 1.1% in the 12 months to March , the slowest pace on record . |
7 | The rate of increase slipped to 3 per cent during the period compared with 3.6pc in the three months to the end of January , the Labour Research Department said in a survey of more than 600 settlements . |
8 | Loaded down with non-performing assets , the banks have balked at new lending , which grew by just 1.1% over the 12 months to April , its slowest ever . |
9 | Britain 's broad-money growth quickened to 14.4% in the 12 months to November ; its narrow-money growth slowed to 3.1% . |
10 | Japanese retail sales leapt 7.5% in the 12 months to September . |
11 | Germany 's retail sales soared by 9.2% in the 12 months to November . |
12 | Its broad money growth has slowed sharply , from 13.2% in the 12 months to May 1990 to 8.6% in the year to December . |
13 | German consumer-price inflation fell to 2.7% in the 12 months to December , from 3.0% in November . |
14 | Its industrial output also fell , by 3.5% in the 12 months to March . |
15 | Britain 's wide-money growth eased slightly to 3.5% in the 12 months to April . |
16 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
17 | Resort Hotels announced a pre-tax profit increase of 27 per cent for the six months to 31 October 1991 , while the Rank Organisation 's pre-tax profits slumped 20 per cent from £312 million in 1990 to £250.5 million in 1991 . |
18 | Reed International , changing its year-end to conform with Elsevier 's , saw pre-tax profits rise 10 per cent for the nine months to December to £137.1 million . |
19 | ’ results , plus a strong performance from plantations , helped boost 's profits by 19 per cent for the 12 months to £85 million compared with £71.2 million the previous year . |
20 | In 1986 38 per cent of the 103,000 conceptions outside marriage to teenagers ( under age 20 ) were aborted , declining to 32 per cent of the 25,000 such conceptions to women aged 30–4 and rising to 56 per cent of the 2,000 conceptions to unmarried women aged 40 and over . |
21 | The Office of Fair Trading 's Consumer Use of Credit Survey showed that the Citizens Advice Bureaux were seen as far the most obvious place to turn to for advice on problems of meeting credit payments with 69 per cent of the 2,155 respondents to the survey . |
22 | Cooling seems to be more pronounced and more extensive in the west than the east ; for example , since 1981 ( Fig. 3 a ) there has been a decrease of more than -1°C in the upper layers to the west , compared with warming in the intermediate water to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
23 | Looking at the other indicators , employment dropped 1.4% in the nine months to April . |
24 | Heavy commitments in the social security budget had driven government finances deeply into deficit , and industrial production had slumped as interest rates rose ; manufacturing output was estimated to have fallen by 6 per cent in the eight months to August , and Sweden 's normally low unemployment rate had climbed from 1.5 per cent in January 1990 to more than 3 per cent . |
25 | With no volume gains and falling prices , like-for-like sales in shoes fell back by 1.5 per cent in the six months to 31 July . |
26 | The number of store cards rose by 1.4 per cent in the six months to September 1989 . |
27 | International waste management company Attwoods pushed profits ahead more than 11 per cent in the six months to January after a good performance from key sectors of its US business . |
28 | A return of £21.9 million on its broking activities allowed the group to boost pre-tax profits by 12 per cent in the six months to 31 December , from £30 million at halfway in 1991 to £34 million . |
29 | On the export side the volume of cars shot up 27 per cent in the three months to November , compared with the previous three months though other consumer , intermediate and capital goods showed much more modest increases of 5.5 per cent , 4 per cent and 9 per cent , respectively . |
30 | Real gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell by 1.6 per cent in the three months to September , following a fall of 0.4 per cent in the June quarter . |