Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 2 | Conglomerate Hanson , strongly dependent on recovery in the US market , is unlikely to impress with year-end figures down 17% to £1.09bn. , with the dividend rise for the year put at 1% to 11.1p . |
| 3 | The interim dividend is raised to 2.35p , from 2.14p net a share , covered by earnings up 0.75p to 4.97p . |
| 4 | For the half year to September , Merrydown reported profits down 19% to £760,000 reflecting strong competition . |
| 5 | Among those lowered were Land Securities down 6p to 516p ; Rosehaugh 21p to 534p and Speyhawk 16p to 299p . |
| 6 | As mentioned , GTI turned in pre-tax profits up 104% to £8.1m , while sales grew 37% to £60.9m . |
| 7 | A supplier of accounting software and related products for personal computers , Sage saw pre-tax profits up 24% to £5.4m , while turnover rose 44.8% to £21m . |
| 8 | Results from its international drinks business IDV provide rather more cheer , with profits up 12% to £509m , while its retailing division had a mixed performance . |
| 9 | Accountancy software supplier Systems Union Ltd , has turned in a record result for its 1992 fiscal year , with pre-tax profits up 280% to £1.5m , on turnover that increased 47.6% to £12.1m : the privately-owned London-based company has operations in Europe , the US and the Asia-Pacific region , and opened a new office in Hong Kong in November , with the aim of addressing the expanding South East Asian market and supporting the existing network of local distributors and agents ; it now boasts more than 100 agents , value-added resellers and distributors worldwide ; chairman John Pemberton aims to expand this network further during 1993 ; the group also launched version 4.0 of its SunSystems product line at the end of last year ; SunSystems comprises two main elements — SunAccount , a fully-integrated ledger accounting package , and SunBusiness , or sales purchase order entry , invoicing and inventory and control software . |
| 10 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 11 | Massachusetts-based Andover Controls did well , reporting profits up 33% to £5m . |
| 12 | HARDANGER , the retail property developer , posted pre-tax profits up £1.3million to £8.37million . |
| 13 | Despite net assets up 35% to £458 million at Stanhope , the city is unimpressed with the sector . |
| 14 | But also to make people aware of the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association , what we 're trying to do , and that we 're there to help people as well as being er an organisation which just hands out money to er doctors . |
| 15 | It is the ‘ forest enterprise ’ which plants trees , and the ‘ forest authority ’ which does a little research , provides technical and policy advice to government and private foresters , and hands out grants to the private sector . |
| 16 | Child 's desk reduced from £29.99 to £19.99 , Thunderbirds playsuits down £6 to £6.99 . |
| 17 | Pork loin chops are down 40p a lb to £1.39 , boneless pork steaks down 40p a lb to £1.99 and Somerfield fresh chicken breast fillets down 70p to £2.59 a lb . |
| 18 | The strongest turnover growth was reported by Gresham Telecomputing , up 200% to £6m ; Lynx , up 84% to £7m ; Instem up 42% at £16m ; Sage Group up 36% at £27m and Kewill Systems up 34% to £42m . |
| 19 | I am not saying that a bream leader dishes out orders to his underlings in the same way that an army commander does . |
| 20 | But the City took fright at escalating costs and marked the shares down 4p to 715p . |
| 21 | The worse-than-expected results knocked shares down 13p to 427p , before they closed at 428p , down 12p . |
| 22 | The City put the shares up 4p to 565p , but that seems to have been largely on the basis of the optimistic tone of the statement and the general state of the market than from any in-depth analysis of the figures . |
| 23 | The City welcomed the purchase by marking Reed 's shares up 9p to 410p , but was more surprised by News Corporation 's acquisition of the textbook publishing arm of Time-Warner . |
| 24 | Bolstering the deal with 13 new Pegasus power packs pushed the shares up 5p to 114p . |
| 25 | New crime figures for England and Wales confirmed 1990 as the worst year on record , with recorded crimes up 17% to more than 4m . |