Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chatsworth , California-based personal computer manufacturer Packard Bell Inc has established a headquarters facility in the Netherlands to handle manufacturing , distribution and service for Packard Bell products throughout Europe : the new unit includes 250 employees ; last year , Packard Bell did about $100m in Europe , 10% of its 1992 worldwide sales of $925m , and looks for $200m or 16% this year . |
| 2 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 3 | That means the economy will grow by less than 3% this year . |
| 4 | The London pilot scheme is proving so successful that Ru , 34 , and Nick , 33 , expect to make more than £8,000 this year . |
| 5 | This would end the gifting by the NHS to the private sector in Scotland of not less than £200,000 each year ( over £2 million south of the Border ) . |
| 6 | And the policy is bearing fruit : India 's economy will probably expand by more than 5% this year and inflation is down to 7% . |
| 7 | Shareholders have been promised unchanged total dividends of not less than 5.25p this year . |
| 8 | It has 170 cottages around Britain that it lets out to holiday-makers and the income raised — more than £700,000 last year — helps provide extra cash for its vital conservation work . |
| 9 | The CBI points out that UK dividends , as a percentage of post-tax profits , have been consistently higher than elsewhere , reaching more than 70% last year , compared with 54% in the US and under 35% in Germany and Japan . |
| 10 | After shrinking during the 1980s , the economy grew by 10% in 1991 and by more than 7% last year . |
| 11 | In the south-east of Scotland ( 11 ) a system based on the annual rotation of sheep , hay and cattle or simply alternating cattle and sheep each year to provide ‘ clean ‘ grass has demonstrated impressive increases in production . |
| 12 | Yesterday the deputy principal , Alan Dixon , said the college has earmarked between £15,000 and £20,000 each year to pay for a full time teacher at the Adult Basic Education Unit . |
| 13 | But there were other , less visible , receipts , such as his pension from Spain , which came to between £1,000 and £1,500 each year . |
| 14 | What it and The Interface Group have in mind is a Unix Distributed Computing showcase in the South Hall annex , a mini-conference with its own programme similar to the way they handled networking and multimedia last year . |
| 15 | Education spending rose by 16pc last year and 7pc this year , he claimed . |
| 16 | In spite of the vast array of clinical and pathological features which help predict patient outcome , individual tumour behaviour can still not be accurately determined for the most patients who fall into Dukes 's stage B and C1 , with 77% and 41% 5 year survival respectively . |
| 17 | Analyst Mark Simpson is looking for profits of £2.4m this year and £2.85m next year . |
| 18 | Whitehill Town Council contributed £250 this year and £150 last year towards the upkeep of the grounds . |
| 19 | The group has launched a huge promotional campaign involving free meal vouchers and this is expected to boost sales to between £550m and £600m this year . |
| 20 | For all these reasons , bank-loan growth will be as low as 6% this year , suggests another broker , W.I. Carr , compared with 20% in 1990 . |