Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINGAPORE Para Rubber reported lower profits before tax of £148,000 for the six months to 30 June , compared with £212,000 previously . |
| 2 | RESTRUCTURING and redundancy costs of £1.02bn pushed troubled oil giant BP deep into a loss of £594m for the nine months to end-September , the company said yesterday . |
| 3 | Johnson Matthey turned in pre-tax profits of £32.6m for the six months to 30 September 1991 , virtually unchanged against the same period in 1990 ( at £32.5m ) , according to chairman David Davies . |
| 4 | Paid wages of £1,500 for the three months to date . |
| 5 | It expects 1992 's growth to decline one point on 1991 , forecasts 20% for 1993–95 , with 10% for the two years after that . |
| 6 | The second data file is the one holding the statistical data for the 42 polygons for the variables InFMORT and GNP . |
| 7 | THE shares of Sage Group jumped 31 to 484p yesterday after the Newcastle-based accounting software supplier unveiled a 44 p.c. rise in pre-tax profits to £4.34m for the six months to end-March . |
| 8 | Interim pre-tax profits rose by an estimated 10 per cent to £17m in the six months to 1 October . |
| 9 | Kate Young 's data from the two villages of Copa Bitoo and Telana reveal how social differentiation can take place ( Young 1978 ) . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind the bias of the Canongate survey , it is nevertheless possible to use data from the 38 families with compositor daughters to suggest something of the family background from which a number of our women compositors came . |
| 11 | Consequently the data from the 53 children with technically satisfactory UOS recordings were analysed . |
| 12 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 13 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 14 | Analysts believe that at best , Sock Shop will show profits of £1million in the 12 months to next February — less than half the level seen in the previous two years . |
| 15 | Chan ( 1992 ) considered transactions data on the twenty shares in the MMI for two periods : August 1984 to June 1985 , and January 1987 to September 1987 . |
| 16 | Minneapolis-based Digi International Inc has definitive agreement to acquire fellow data communications systems specialist Star Gate Technologies Inc in a share exchange transaction valued at about $10m : Solon , Ohio-based Star Gate did $885,000 net on turnover of $10.7m for the 10 months to January 31 . |
| 17 | Last week 96% of the 60,000 bales on offer were snapped up ; Japanese buyers accounted for 35% . |
| 18 | The company , which is in the process of a major expansion drive aimed at moving away from its traditional freezer centre image , made pre-tax profits of £30.1m in the six months to July 3 from £24.22m previously . |
| 19 | The boy , from a children 's home in east Belfast , was said to have taken over £1,200 in the two robberies at Ballyhackamore in the past week . |
| 20 | State subsidy amounted to almost £1.1bn in the 12 months to 31 March , up from £700m the previous year . |
| 21 | ALEXANDRA Workwear , the maker and supplier of boiler suits and nursing uniforms , increased pre-tax profits by 19 per cent to £3.7m in the 28 weeks to 12 August . |
| 22 | Thomson Travel 's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down £10.7million to £53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales . |
| 23 | Thomson Travel 's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down £10.7million to £53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales . |
| 24 | The good news is that we are already over a quarter of the way towards our target , having raised the sum of £34,055 in the six weeks since the trial . |
| 25 | However , the poll showed 66pc of the 203 members of the House of Laity taking part were in favour , with 34pc against . |
| 26 | They jumped from £500,000 to £1,700,000 in the six months to July . |
| 27 | Great Universal Stores , the biggest of the mail order firms , raised pre-tax profit by £8million to £171million in the six months to September , although catalogue sales and retail earnings slumped by £8million . |
| 28 | Great Universal Stores , the biggest of the mail order firms , raised pre-tax profit by £8million to £171million in the six months to September , although catalogue sales and retail earnings slumped by £8million . |
| 29 | The shares surged 24p to 343p on news that profits had leapt 31.4% to £2.81m in the six months to end-September . |
| 30 | The Edinburgh-managed trust , which invests for capital growth in the stock markets of the Pacific Rim , excluding Japan , saw NAV per share rise from 297.2p to 378.7p in the 12 months to 28 February . |