Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , gross profit was down only £2m to £94m . |
| 2 | Owners ' shares slumped 9p to 138p , some 11p short of the 15-for-34 bid terms with Airtours , down just 1p to 338p , suggesting dealers were preparing for the failure of the offer . |
| 3 | However , Save & Prosper , with about £175m held for 37,000 Tessa customers , says that only about 10% to 15% came from existing customers — about 85% is new to the group . |
| 4 | Yet the amounts of money involved are small — the 66 per cent APR represents a charge for credit of only about 10p to 20p a week , on the amount commonly borrowed . |
| 5 | Taxable profits fell from £7.81m to £1.17m in the year to 30 June on group sales down about £20m to £91m . |
| 6 | However Candle believes its current incarnation — Data Facility/System-Managed Storage — does not go far enough : gathering statistics from the Gartner Group , International Data Corp and Xephon Plc , Candle suggests that mainframe disk requirements are growing at 28% per year , while at the same time only around 50% to 75% of the space is actually used . |
| 7 | After the announcement of the Conservatives ' general election victory , gilts enjoyed a period of steady demand from investors , including those from overseas , and yields fell from just under 10% to a little above 9% . |
| 8 | LEAGUE of Friends branches have handed over nearly £4,000 to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen at a recent meeting . |
| 9 | Profits surge : Share dealing and information group ShareLink , which is planning a £30m stock market flotation next month , has announced a profits rise of just over £1m to £3.5m in the 12 months to March 31 . |
| 10 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 11 | The downside is a familiar one : notchy and sticky gearchange , mushy brake pedal , rough and vocal engine ( this one had done 4000 miles yet would still not rev to the red line ) , wind noise at speed and , of course , the seats . |
| 12 | There is a murmur of many voices about it , but the one that comes through is not that of Stephen Daedalus , a little older now , but still recognisably kin to the Stephen of The Portrait , not his voice , but that of Leopold Bloom . |
| 13 | Moreover , for purchases and bills in general , cards tend to work out cheaper than the cash alternative , as the card issuers tot up all the day 's transactions and exchange the total at a favourable exchange rate , usually around 2% to 3% better than the one available to the public . |
| 14 | While Price Waterhouse 's UK fee income for the year to 30 June 1992 was also unimpressive ( up just 2% to £395m ) , turnover in the rest of Europe grew 14% to £442m . |
| 15 | Other supermarket groups were marginally firmer , with Sainsbury a penny better at 468p and Tesco also up 1p to 214p . |
| 16 | Conglomerate BET rose 4p to 260p as Normura forecast profits up nearly £50m to £320m and said the shares were oversold . |
| 17 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future even though he saw a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year perhaps up about 7pc to 1.7 million . |
| 18 | ‘ Renewal retention of the market is probably about 50% to 55% ; so they are keeping a policyholder about two years . |
| 19 | Henry 's total ordinary income at the close of his reign was probably about £113,000 to which the customs contributed £40,000 . |
| 20 | In addition to a guaranteed job , employers usually assist with relocation costs ( typically about $3,000 to $5,000 ) . |
| 21 | It seems that in the course of 1960s church attendance in the province dropped from well over 80% to 25% , while the Quebec birth-rate has become one of the lowest in Canada . |
| 22 | Last year , the Newport office , whose practice relied largely on small clients , saw its fee income drop from well over £1m to £760,000 . |
| 23 | The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean , competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends . |
| 24 | Excluding the mining machinery business that contributed £85million in the corresponding period , before disposal , turnover put on almost £70million to £337.5million . |
| 25 | STUDENT loans are to increase by over 25pc to a maximum of £830 a year . |