Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany alone received $9 billion in 1970 and $4 billion in the first five months of 1971 . |
| 2 | IBM Brasil Leasing Arrendamento Mercantil SA duly raised $120m with the issue of a $120m two tranche Eurobond due December 1995 . |
| 3 | In 1294–7 , it has been calculated , the laity and clergy together yielded £280,000 in direct taxes to the king . |
| 4 | A MAJOR meat industry figure yesterday endorsed livestock producers ' legitimate expectations of premium prices for quality products . |
| 5 | THE financier who made a billion when Chancellor Lamont lost the battle for the pound yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 6 | As well as winning the special award for his enterprise and the potential for his business idea , David also received £200 for reaching the final of the competition . |
| 7 | Mr. Macfie also gave £400 , the annual interest to be credited to the Sustentation Fund of the congregation . |
| 8 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 9 | According to the Survey of Current Business , American private investment abroad totalled $17 billion in 1930 and had reached only $19 billion in 1950 , but then began to climb rapidly to $50 billion in 1930 and $87 billion in 1966 … . |
| 10 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 11 | Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year . |
| 12 | But the Department of Industry recently threw £½ million into the ring in an effort to get firms to adapt their software for use in schools . |
| 13 | In addition , Mr Justice McKinnon 's decision to narrow the indictment to the ‘ late take-up ’ issue effectively disregarded 75% of the evidence presented during the trial . |
| 14 | However , the bishop of Worcester normally paid £10 , while at Feckenham the fee was given as no less than £14. 16s. 10½d. , but this perhaps included services in connexion with the forest administration . |
| 15 | and a collection for his benefit soon raised $15,000 . |
| 16 | A FORMER public school boy yesterday won £8,000 damages for a caning he received nine years ago . |
| 17 | FORMER deputy Tory party chairman Lord Aldington yesterday accepted £30,000 agreed High Court damages and a public apology over war crimes allegations from the publishers of historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy 's book , The Minister and the Massacres . |
| 18 | The judge also said staff at the Berkshire sub-post office may never recover from the terror of that day . |
| 19 | BellSouth Telecommunications also issued $450m of 10-year 6.25% notes non-callable for life , at $99.557% to yield 6.31% via Morgan Stanley & Co Inc as lead manager , and said that it plans to redeem two outstanding bond issues on June 7 . |
| 20 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 21 | Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft . |
| 22 | Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft . |
| 23 | Although Baker once earned £58.17 a week at the NME , he is now a millionaire several times over , appearing as a game-show host ( Win , Lose Or Draw ) and asking housewives if they 'd swap their two packets for one on Daz adverts . |
| 24 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 25 | In 1986/87 universities alone raised £630 million from all non-governmental sources : an increase of 18 per cent on the preceding year . |
| 26 | The tool easily drove 14mm nails into the fibreboard , and we managed around 20 per minute without undue warming of the tool . |
| 27 | Thus in 1985 the wealthiest 1% of the population still owned 20% of all wealth and the wealthiest 10% owned 54% , leaving the other 90% of the population with less than half of all personal wealth . |
| 28 | But senior directors at Coopers yesterday told staff that the move would provide the firm with a wider audit base . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Northampton Town yesterday spent £70,000 — a record cash buy for the Third Division club — to buy the winger Bobby Barnes from Bournemouth . |
| 30 | A painting which hung in Blairgowie Scottish Episcopal Church for 40 years yesterday fetched £825,000 at Christie 's in London . |