Example sentences of "[noun pl] make a [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Spurs made a £810,000 profit in the six months to November , 1991 .
2 Fasten the two ends with sticky tape and push against the fold lines to make a fish shape .
3 American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history .
4 A tragic process began to unfold and faced with a entrancement they could not understand , officials made a series of misjudgments that would end in an even greater loss of life .
5 A MAJOR heroin dealing ring was believed smashed today after police made a series of early-morning raids in Liverpool .
6 Between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries , a succession of English monarchs made a series of expansionist forays into the neighbouring country of Ireland .
7 He knew what it meant that Marcus should stay in the room whilst Bill managed for three consecutive hours to make a series of acceptably banal factual observations .
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