Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | PREMIER Consolidated Oilfields yesterday reported a 24 p.c. fall in full-year profits to £8.91m pre-tax , on turnover 24 p.c. lower at £32m . |
2 | Work on installing spray booths for Japanese car makers in Britain helped boost results of the automated manufacturing systems division , with profits up 36 p.c. to £9.9m on turnover 50 p.c. ahead at £150m . |
3 | The warning accompanied full-year figures showing a 21 p.c. rise in pre-tax profits last year to £6.67m , on sales 27 p.c. ahead at £48½m . |
4 | QS HOLDINGS , the South of England clothing retailer , turned in another recession-beating performance last year , pushing profits on from £7.2m to a record £7.79m pre-tax , on sales 8 p.c. higher at £45.6m . |
5 | WASTE Management International , the waste disposal group recently floated in London , has returned first-quarter profits 52 p.c. higher at £27.3m on turnover up a third at £186m . |
6 | The Handbook of Developmental Psychology , edited by Benjamin Wolman , covers nearly everything one could think of — as it should weighing in at £69 and nearly 5½ kg ! |
7 | His powerful , concentrated , gently oaky Boteleur at £6.99 is a classic but needs a bit more time and his Green label Chardonnay also at £6.99 is a real winner , multi-layered , rich and toasty . |
8 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
9 | The figures were no more attractive at the operating level , where profits before exceptional items were down more than half at £31m and the combined contributions of the profitable elements-engineering , construction and mining-were a quarter lower at £58m . |
10 | Rugby defies slump to inch ahead at £57.6m |
11 | They are back in play now at 88p , but were floated at a quid each in 1983 . |
12 | Other insurers were firmer in the wake of Prudential 's results with Sun Alliance a penny up at 372p , General Accident 2p better at 670p and Commercial Union also 2p higher at 607p . |
13 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |
14 | The serum was drained and sections incubated with ET-1 antiserum overnight at 4°C . |
15 | Currencies had a quiet day , with sterling closing just under half a pfennig lower at Dm2.3835 and a tenth of a cent down at $1.4330 . |
16 | Their technical advisers , the American engineering consultancy Parsons de Leuw Cather and the German consultancy Lahmeyer International , estimate the cost of the project now at £8.1bn . |
17 | Interest was that amount lower at £3.6million , offsetting most of the £2million mining and industrial hydraulics contribution in the six months to September last year . |
18 | Earnings per share were a shade higher at 8.54p ( 8.43p ) . |
19 | Targeted largely to VARs , systems integrators and OEMs for engineering environments and building image management systems for technical documents , ANA Tech 's new flagship , the large-format Eagle 3640 features 400DPI and interpolated 800 DPI resolution in a production-volume pinch roller scanner priced cost effectively at $25,000 . |
20 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
21 | For the seriously down hip hop homie only at £15 . |
22 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
23 | It is now on the market again at £995,000 , some Pounds 500,000 down on its previous asking price . |