Example sentences of "[no cls] [adv] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er again on the national level , if you think there 's a , a campaign you wan na be involved in or wan na get started I 'll put that on to the area N U S who will , if it 's a credible case , will put it forward to the National Executive . |
| 2 | And a woman is in hospital after a three-vehicle crash on the A1 yesterday on the southbound road at the Kirkby Fleetham turn-off near Bedale in North Yorkshire . |
| 3 | We felt that it is our duty to inform the people about the situation of Kuwait , about Kuwait in general , it 's culture , it 's erm as a nation , and erm in addition to help the Kuwaiti community erm and at the moment erm we are collecting information erm either on the general situation inside Kuwait City at the moment , or erm generally more information about Kuwait . |
| 4 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 5 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
| 6 | Although the Christian Democrats ( CD ) , who had controlled the city council since the end of the Second World War , won only 94 fewer votes than the League — translating as 24.3 per cent of the vote and 7.6 per cent down on the last elections — the Brescia poll was widely interpreted as signalling a disillusionment among voters with existing electoral options . |
| 7 | London is faring particularly badly : this quarter new commissions were valued at £3,143 million , 23 per cent down on the previous quarter and dramatically down on the £7,247 million value for the same quarter last year . |
| 8 | Other areas showing significant falls are Wales , 46 per cent down on the previous quarter , Midlands/East Anglia ( 30 per cent ) , North ( 21 per cent ) , South West ( 20 per cent ) , and Ulster ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Green form ’ advice for consumer problems was 16 per cent down on the previous year . |
| 10 | Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) . |
| 11 | The budget deficit , set at KD1,318,600,000 , was 2 per cent down on the previous year . |
| 12 | The general administrative budget , at 489,822,000 million francs CFA , was 2.1 per cent down on the previous year 's budget but 1.3 per cent above the actual figure for 1989 . |
| 13 | Total UK car sales , at 266,072 , were 7 per cent up on the 1991 figure . |
| 14 | In the first three months of 1992 , a further 6,631 cases were reported ( 50 per cent up on the equivalent period last year ) . |
| 15 | The 1990 budget , presented by the government and approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 21 , 1990 , set spending at £Syr61,875 million , 8.5 per cent up on the 1989 budget [ for which see p. 37100 ] . |
| 16 | At £2,077 million it was just over 26 per cent up on April , and 52 per cent up on the corresponding month in 1992 . |
| 17 | The company 's co-brokers , Hoare Govett , had hoped for £12m before tax ; in the event the figure was £9.54m , still 89 per cent up on the corresponding period 's £5.04m . |
| 18 | The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year . |
| 19 | These show an accelerating rate of growth , not only in the rate of increase in VAT registered businesses , to a net average of 1,200 a week in the past year — 50 per cent up on the previous year — but also in the self-employed , who rose from just under two million to more than three million . |
| 20 | The company made a £670 million profit last year — six per cent up on the previous year . |
| 21 | I ran CPAV past my library of 3,000-plus viruses and the success rate is a reflection of the package 's US origins — it detected 66 per cent of the infected files , 5 per cent up on the previous version , 1.3 . |
| 22 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |