Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Invergordon 's shares dipped sharply early on in the morning after the figures , by the close of play they had recovered to end only 1p down at 269p . |
| 2 | on the 248 dates of the ‘ Brothers in Arms ’ world tour , the entire accounts were only £4.04 out of balance . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been told that we will receive only £1,000 back from the insurance , ’ she added . |
| 4 | He had originally charged only 10% back in 1946 , at a time when he was principally concerned with much lower-level searches , and had frequently experienced total losses when he had been unable to complete an assignment satisfactorily . |
| 5 | The shares jumped 13p on the figures before settling back to close only 2p up at 424p . |
| 6 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 7 | Just imagine how the brewers would react if their customers decided to hand over only 99p out of every £1 they were charged . ’ |
| 8 | The £917m it made in 1991 was just 3pc down on the previous year 's £945m . |
| 9 | During the same period the government gave the motorist just £3.8 back in road building . |
| 10 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 11 | When the frequency is lower than ο max the permanent dipoles can follow the field quite closely and so ε′ is high because the dipoles align easily with each change in polarity ; ε′′ on the other hand is low again because now the voltage and the current are approximately 90° out of phase . |
| 12 | Sales of Gateacre-made Spam are already 7% up on last year and the new campaign is aimed at increasing them even further . |
| 13 | The Hennessy winner , Ghofar , looks nicely treated off bottom weight , including a 4lb penalty , although technically he is still 5lb out of the handicap . |
| 14 | The share price of the 18% of Vestel quoted on the Istanbul stock exchange is climbing slowly , but is still 40% down on the all time high . |
| 15 | South West Water , which reports the following day , was also 1p down at 503p . |
| 16 | Bradley picked up £38 out of £58 on offer . |
| 17 | The Legal & General share price was nearly 700% up at the end of last year . |
| 18 | Bulmers ' £17.1 million profit is nearly 20% up on the previous year . |
| 19 | Yes , I think it probably is. back to page er twenty thirty three two abstentions so it 's carried forty two thirty three in total . |
| 20 | In 1983 oil demand in the Netherlands fell to 291 million tonnes , nearly 30% down on the 1979 level and representing 43% of total energy demand . |
| 21 | These included Burmah Castrol down 22p to 773p , Bowater 6p off at 483p , Hanson 3p weaker at 248p , MB-Caradon also 3p down at 334p , Reed Elsevier 3p easier at 717p and Royal Insurance 1p adrift at 310p . |
| 22 | Beer profits slumped from £54.2m to £51m but the leisure side , Center Parcs , kept up its momentum with maintained occupancy of 90% and profits nearly £2m up at £38.8m . |
| 23 | The encouraging February figure took the total for the first two months of 1993 to 291,923 — nearly 11pc up on the January-February , 1992 , figure of 263,096 . |
| 24 | ‘ Overall our four shops were about 17% up on last year ’ , though even with this boost , trading in the calendar year will be down on ‘ 91 . |
| 25 | Attached brick-built garages are similar in cost to extensions ; pre-fabricated concrete garages cost from about £1,000 up to £4,000 , but now come in attractive finishes and , at the top of the range , with pitched roofs that can be tiled to match the house . |
| 26 | Make several small slits about 2.5cm/1in up from the base to allow excess water to drain away . |
| 27 | A number of them were about 10% up on last year , and several were as much as 20% up . |
| 28 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 29 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 30 | By January 1991 , the tunnellers were about ¾km in from the shaft , somewhere beneath Clifton College . |