Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He also noted that sales in the first two months of the year are ahead of company budgets , but this failed to help the shares , which closed 30p lower at 143p , having been down 38p at one stage .
2 Half-year profits are down 6% at £108.4m and it seems the recession has finally hit the North .
3 North Atlantic prawns are down £1.69 to £4.29 , and breaded scampi is £1.99 for 400g , down £1 .
4 SCOTTISH salmon steaks are down £1 to £3.99 for 3lb at Asda .
5 The 16″ and 19″ colour models of the Sparcstation 2 are off 17% at $15,300 — £12,300 — and 11.9% at $16,300 — £13,000 — respectively .
6 Holiday bookings are up 20% on last year and the stresses and strains of the recession and high interest rates are forcing smaller travel operators out of business .
7 ‘ There was a massive drop in demand , but so far this year registrations are up 10pc on last year .
8 Earnings per share fell from 24.4p to 17½p but dividends are up 0.2p to 10.2p with a final of 6.2p payable June 10 .
9 The car market has been similarly hit by deferred purchases : car sales in April this year were down 24% on April 1990 .
10 Net earnings per share were down 50% to $0.04 in the quarter , and amounted to $0.34 in the nine months .
11 Imports were down 15% at $4,125m .
12 Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million .
13 Hit by the effects of world recession , turnover in 1991 was 42% down on the previous year from £14.59 million to £8.3 million while interim figures were down 39% from £4.9 million in June ‘ 91 to £3 million in June ‘ 92 , resulting in a loss per share of 3.51p .
14 Net earnings were down 40% at £39m .
15 Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 yesterday after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter .
16 Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 last week after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter .
17 Iomega Corp has reported first quarter net profits down 32.7% at $1.2m after a gain of $2.3m from an accounting change and a restructuring charge of $982,000 , on turnover that rose 11.8% at $37.0m.Net earnings per share were off 27% at $0.08 .
18 The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products .
19 Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year .
20 Revenues from this were up 77% to £37.2m , while pre-tax profits grew 92% to £7.8 .
21 Exports were up 4% at $2,787 .
22 Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines .
23 Although overall revenues here were up 11% to £172.3m , after adjustment for exchange rates , they remained virtually unchanged .
24 Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole .
25 The European operation reached only 80% of its profit target although UK profits were up 25% in 1992 on sales that rose 17% to £32.4m .
26 D&B 's European operation only reached 80% of its profit target although UK profits were up 25% in 1992 on sales that rose 17% to £32.4m .
27 Pre-tax profits were up 54% to £8m , further helped by the interest charge halved at £2.2m .
28 IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ?
29 IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ?
30 Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules .
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