Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals director Charles Holden said the planned pit closures will reduce the charity 's income by £175,000 through lost donations from miners . |
| 2 | But the magistrate awarded De Pace £800 compensation for anxiety and sleepless nights , £74 for dental bills and £640 legal costs . |
| 3 | But this goat , which is kept with the sheep for similar reasons , has to be separated . |
| 4 | Mr Richard Collin , director of central services , said the council had set aside £2.3m. for bad debts this year , but the actual figure was likely to be £4.1m . |
| 5 | The UMW was fined more than $65,000,000 for strike-related activities ; the bulk of this sum remained unpaid at the time of the resolution of the dispute . |
| 6 | From there we go to Corgarff Castle near Strathdon , a 16th-century tower house converted into a barracks for Hanoverian troops in 1748 . |
| 7 | From Moscow , Mr Gorbachev is believed to have given personal orders that his troops should stay firmly in their East German barracks during recent demonstrations and not respond to local provocation . |
| 8 | There were also regular conferences at headquarters for divisional controllers and further coordinating meetings for other divisional officers , with whom their headquarters functional equivalents liked to maintain direct contact . |
| 9 | In January Habitat was fined £3,600 for similar offences in Croydon , south London . |
| 10 | The Gloucester branch had already been fined £3,600 for similar offences , the city 's magistrates were told . |
| 11 | After further discussion it was agreed that , due to the complexities of the regulations surrounding financial transactions , and the obligation to make regular returns to the headquarters about financial matters , investigation of the FI category seemed to offer the most potential for improvement . |
| 12 | they had to ‘ sell ’ changes in operating policy to central management , and had to be prepared to accept advice from the ‘ general officers ’ at headquarters about desirable changes . |
| 13 | The range of prices for bathroom furniture is enormous , starting at under £250 for standard suites , and going up to over £1,500 , for better quality , more intricately designed suites , which often include taps and bidets . |
| 14 | The statistical table shows that the barometric pressure at mean sea level varies from about 1014 to 1017 mb This gives an average of just over 1015.5 mb For practical purposes , we can call it 1016 mb |
| 15 | The presently non-binding agreement calls for IBM to subscribe $500,000 for new shares at the placing price of 65 pence , giving IBM 2.7% , and to grant IBM warrants to subscribe for sufficient additional shares to represent a total of 10% of the enlarged equity , also at 65 pence a share , subject to adjustments . |
| 16 | The discounts vary with the publisher but a Lotus 1–2-3 25-user set is going for $10,000 and Avalon , the page layout program , usually $49,000 for simultaneous users , is now $10,000 . |
| 17 | But despite national policies that promote rail , the railway system has lost market share heavily since the 1960s and is currently running a deficit of some DM 14bn after heavy subsidies . |
| 18 | Only 10% of a USM company 's securities need be in public hands , as opposed to 25% for listed companies . |
| 19 | Costs are £25 return for adults , £20 for children and £21 for senior citizens . |
| 20 | You can pay up to £20 for similar valves but we are offering the C.K. non-return valve for only £16.95 including VAT and carriage — a small price for such a sensible permanent accessory . |
| 21 | You can pay up to £20 for similar valves , but we are offering the CK non-return valve for only £16.95 , including VAT and carriage — a small price for such a sensible permanent accessory . |
| 22 | Finally , Type 5 was a small aircraft for local services in the UK and the colonies . |
| 23 | He was suspended for one match a year ago after a skirmish with West Ham 's Mitchell Thomas and in January was fined £1,500 for abusive gestures to fans before a match at Arsenal . |
| 24 | The furious attack was launched after divorcee Ann Fenton , former wife of a millionaire , was fined £1,500 for driving offences . |
| 25 | Sale starts December 28 with £20 off Zanussi fridges . |
| 26 | The implication of this was that Senior School fees — then £369 a year — would have to rise to at least £550 for new boys . |
| 27 | They provide a simple equivalent of PEEK and POKE , but they come into their own when used to pass data between CHAINed programs , build complicated data structures or for use with machine code programs . |
| 28 | Passing data between CHAINed programs can be a bit of a problem because COMMON variables can not be declared and all but the static variables are cleared by CHAIN . |
| 29 | If you wish to pass large amounts of data between CHAINed programs , you should use a data file . |
| 30 | There are also a few experiments in Earth geometry that gain from the rapid transfer of data between distant schools . |