Example sentences of "to [n mass] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 2 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 3 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 4 | The company , which also makes Scalextric , saw profits crash by 70 per cent to £158,000 in the first half of this year . |
| 5 | Kleinwort last month reported a decline in pre-tax profits of almost £5m to £30.1m in the first half , though recovering from loss in the previous six months . |
| 6 | WESSEX Water saw profits rise 11.3% to £44.3m in the first half helped by a tight control of costs and improved results from its non core businesses . |
| 7 | We do n't actually recirculate the air within the building , so there 's no business of people on the second floor giving germs to people on the first floor , and then people giving germs to people on the ground floor . |
| 8 | His computer software group Vistec has romped in with a record increase of 29% to £1.3m in the first half , and the City is pinning its hopes on a further leap from £1m to £3.3m in the full year . |
| 9 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 10 | Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year . |
| 11 | Cost savings , including 1900 job losses , helped boost NatPower 's profits by 10% to £201m in the first half to September 27 . |
| 12 | He increased it to £76,000 in the first year , which was a modest 65 per cent . |
| 13 | The first mention of £100 clearly demands an ‘ at least ’ interpretation ; what Arthur has is ‘ exactly ’ £100 ; one might therefore not expect the it of the second sentence to be able to refer anaphorically to £100 in the first sentence without antagonism . |
| 14 | Groupe Axime SA , France 's third-largest software and systems integration house , reported net profit equivalent to $2.9m for the first half of its 1992-93 fiscal year to December 31 , compared with net losses for both the first half and the full year 1991-92 . |
| 15 | But losses leapt to £5.5m in the first half of 1989 . |
| 16 | Sell on a strike they say , so no doubt the time to sell 3DO Co Inc 's shares are as soon as the first marketable interactive multimedia home entertainment centres to the company 's standard are announced : the shares , floated at $15 , rose to $20.125 on the first day of trading going to $24 on the second day . |