Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] first [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 2 | Houston-based Compaq says its sales rose by 10% during the first three months of this year . |
| 3 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 4 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 5 | Spending of convertible currencies on imported cars had reached $200,000,000 in the first 11 months of 1989 and had caused a considerable drain on currency reserves . |
| 6 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 7 | The Board have upped the fines in the Nat West Trophy and the B&H Cup from the previously meaningless level of £100 per over not bowled by curfew time to an escalating scale ranging from £220 in the first two rounds to £330 in the quarter-finals , £660 in the semi-finals and … wait for it , £1320 per unbowled over in the final . |
| 8 | AST is third in US market share among portable computer makers , Edwards said , and overall unit growth was up about 65% in the first nine months of the current fiscal . |
| 9 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 10 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 11 | The most important of these restricted speed to 20 mph for the first 6 months of working in order to permit the road bed to consolidate satisfactorily . |
| 12 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |
| 13 | Mr Parker , who announced his resignation last week , unveiled pre-tax profits of £2.3m for the first six months of 1993 . |
| 14 | The volume of factored turnover rose 10% to £7.52bn in the first six months after an increase of just 2.5% in the whole of 1991 , according to the Association of British Factors and Discounters ( ABFD ) , which represents 11 of the largest factoring companies . |
| 15 | The FT property-company index soared by 32% in the first five months of the year , while the FT-All Share gained just 3% . |
| 16 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 17 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 18 | Bankruptcies , including voluntary and er company liquidations , up by seventy five percent in the first six months of this year . |
| 19 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 20 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 21 | NatWest Bancorp lost $140m in the first nine months of 1990 , mainly because of dud property loans . |
| 22 | After a short tussle a 5lb barbel was heading towards the landing net and I must admit I had visions of winning the match — 6 ½lb in the first twenty minutes is n't a bad start on any water . |
| 23 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 24 | The fry are extremely tiny , too small to take even Artemia nauplii for the first 5–6 days . |
| 25 | Official statistics for the first nine months of 1990 suggested that the growth in real GDP fell to 2.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in the comparable period of 1989 . |
| 26 | Pouch excision , which occurred in 30% of the first 50 patients was undertaken in only 4% in the last 68 patients . |
| 27 | Orders in the UK rose by 15% in the first five months . |
| 28 | They fell 15% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity . |
| 29 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 30 | 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 . |