Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royalty paid by Atkinson & Hall during the years 1759–66 amounted to £403 : 15s . |
| 2 | YOUR income for 1991-92 amounted to £5,820 before tax . |
| 3 | Systems & Computer Technology Inc has reported fourth quarter net profits down 40.8% at $1m , after $180,000 tax credits this time and $638,000 last time , on turnover up 40.2% at $27.4m ; net losses for the year to September 30 amounted to $2.3m against profits of $4.7m last time , after $1.7m tax credits last time , on turnover that rose 39% to $90.9m . |
| 4 | ( In 1986 this amounted to £10,500 . ) |
| 5 | According to some estimates this amounted to $3,600,000 million , or more than the annual US gross domestic product . |
| 6 | In 1985 , this amounted to £64 but the first prize was only £40 . |
| 7 | DataCare has generated most of Phonelink 's turnover to date — in 1992 , this amounted to £923,000 , while pre-tax profits , after £414,000 research and development spend , were £31,000 . |
| 8 | In 1982 this amounted to £750 on a bungalow costing £16 300 . |
| 9 | It has been estimated that the total fees paid to third parties in the take-over process in the UK in 1985 came to £500 million , about 7 per cent of the value of the transactions , and the figure will be much higher in the case of contested bids . |
| 10 | 68% of respondents in the first survey thought televising would ‘ make MPs improve their behaviour ’ , but this declined to 48% after three months of the experiment . |
| 11 | In September , bank lending rose by more than £10 billion , but this fell to £5.2 billion in October . |
| 12 | In 1950 , America consumed half the world 's oil ; by 1960 this fell to 44% and by 1970 it was less than one third . |
| 13 | Among the worst hit Third World export commodities are : petroleum ( $36 in January 1986 dropped to $18 by January 1987 ) , palm oil ( $644 in 1984 to $231 in 1986 ) , tin ( $12 in 1985 to $6.16 in 1986 ) , cotton ( 63 cents to 26 cents in 1986 ) , sugar ( prices stuck at 5-6 cents although production costs are double this ) . |
| 14 | Exports of electronics from this country in 1979 amounted to £2.7 billion and rose to £13.6 billion in 1990 , the last full year for which I have the figures . |
| 15 | Under the new method , the Pru 's group pre-tax profits in 1991 amounted to £620m to give earnings per share of 20.3p . |
| 16 | Loudmer 's total earnings for 1991 plummeted to FFr 161,500,000 , a tenth of those for 1990 . |
| 17 | Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Inc has reported fourth quarter net profits of $1.3m against losses of $5m last time , on turnover up 16.3% at $28.8m ; net losses for the year to December 31 amounted to $2.9m down from losses of $11.1m last time , on turnover that fell 87.6% to $112.6m . |
| 18 | Pretax profits to March 31 rose to £185.4m from £171.3m . |
| 19 | Pre-tax profits in the year ending March 31 collapsed to £40.7m from £95.7m previously . |
| 20 | The Group 's share of net assets at 31 December 1992 amounted to £30 million [ 1991 £32 million ] . |
| 21 | On the basis of ELAN 's accounting policies , the Group 's share of its profits before tax for 1992 was £3 million [ 1991 £1 million ] and the Group 's share of its net assets at 31 December 1992 amounted to £26 million [ 1991 £37 million ] . |
| 22 | Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline . |
| 23 | The national utility , Electrabel reports that the nuclear share in overall electricity production in 1992 rose to 60% , compared with 58.4% in 1991 . |
| 24 | Taxable profits for 1992 dived to £5.32 million from £18.3 million in the previous 12 months . |
| 25 | Group pre-tax profits for 1991/92 amounted to £189.5m ( v £230.8m ) . |
| 26 | Just prior to the purchase Farringdon plc 's share of the net assets of KP Ltd amounted to £144,000 . |
| 27 | DEC accounts for half MasPar 's sales ( Kalb would prefer it if that fell to 33% ) , and the firm is concerned that if DEC fails to position the ostensibly competing parallel lines clearly , potential customers will be confused . |
| 28 | Out of 157 Kalam names , 96 applied to species , and 13 more to groups of species forming valid taxa in our system . |
| 29 | The return shows in all 849 persons of £40 and above , which should yield a net figure of something like 700 possible merchants , since a good many of the assessmented belonged to gentry , clergy , members of non-mercantile companies , or men of unstated occupation . |
| 30 | Imports , excluding gold , increased from $13,513 million in 1988 to $14,838 million in 1989 , while exports in 1989 fell to $11,771 million . |