Example sentences of "[n mass] in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The US schools market was more competitive , he added , citing Harcourt Brace as a particularly energetic contender in the field ; but marketing costs were down , so that operating margins were kept high — at 14% in dollar terms . |
2 | The increased output achieved on assisted farms has been 14% in cattle numbers and 27% in sheep numbers(23) . |
3 | Ninety per cent of the houses built in the inter-war period were of low rateable value , not exceeding £26 ( £35 in Greater London ) . |
4 | European Tour officials will not speculate on how much the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup will make but , apart from the £6.5m in ticket sales , extra revenue will come from television and other sponsorship deals . |
5 | European Tour officials will not speculate on how much the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup will make but , apart from the £6.5m in ticket sales , extra revenue will come from television and other sponsorship deals . |
6 | This William Hills shop in Cheltenham is having to pay back over £20,000 in stake money . |
7 | The same reasoning was used in Lewis v Lethbridge [ 1987 ] Crim LR 59 ( DC ) : The accused received £54 in sponsorship money for a colleague who entered the London Marathon . |
8 | We start our new series on US aircraft in RAF service with a look at the B-26 Marauder — The Widowmaker — in RAF service . |
9 | Roberts added that what this really pointed to was the importance of having some aircraft in South Korea ; at present only twelve or fourteen planes were there . |
10 | USL 's November investment of $1m in Chorus Systemes , an investment that was subsequently increased , gave it a 7% position . |
11 | Tillett 's Tea Operatives had only been spurred into action by the activities of an outspoken gas stoker named Will Thorne who had succeeded in organizing the men at the great Beckton gasworks in East Ham into forming a Gas Workers ' Union in May 1889 . |
12 | It already pays all claims of more than £220 in Northern Ireland — at a cost of £680m over the past 23 years . |
13 | Over the Snake Pass to Sheffield at 110mph in Darren Mansell Partington 's VW Beetle |
14 | BCE Inc says it is ready to invest about $1,600m in telecommunications activities over the next five years in Asia , Latin America and Eastern Europe , and is interested in wireline privatisations , investment in wireless cellular licenses and joint ventures in both in different countries in those regions ; it has active negotiations with Mexico , India and Moscow for cellular licence investments , and is Cable & Wireless Plc 's partner in Mercury Communications Ltd ; BCE president L R Wilson also criticised Canada 's ‘ uncertain and confused ’ telecommunications regulatory framework , describing it as BCE 's biggest challenge , and calling for change ; at the annual meeting , he hit out at the policies of the Canadian Radio television & Telecommunications Commission , saying it is too slow in considering new products , services and rates — ‘ To be truly competitive , we need government policy and a regulatory framework which is clear , responsive and internationally relevant , ’ he said . |
15 | Tommy 's mouth-organ , rusty and falling apart , seven pounds eleven shillings and sixpence in back pay , followed by a German officer 's helmet . |
16 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
17 | ‘ We think we can best define our core business ourselves , but it 's difficult to be £1 in information technology , ’ Hjoth said . |
18 | She was ordered to pay £15 in library fines , £31.90 compensation and £25 costs . |
19 | From 1846 they could sue those who owed them small sums under £20 in county courts , created for that purpose in that year . |
20 | This year 's Milan tournament , won by Becker , offered £230,000 in prize money — of which the champion took £50,000 . |
21 | Matta had been accused of overseeing a ring which had distributed cocaine worth $72,000,000 in Los Angeles , and Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) officials claimed that he controlled a drug-trafficking empire worth up to $2,000 million . |
22 | A Yard statement said the five were being questioned in connection with the alleged dishonest handling of £16m of the £26m in gold bars stolen in November 1983 from the Brink's-Mat bullion warehouse at Heathrow airport . |
23 | ‘ The fundamental thing is that we have come away from true asset finance , ’ said Tony Foley , director of Leaseplan , which has a portfolio of £60m in asset finance plus a further £150m in vehicle leasing . |
24 | The filter was hybridized overnight with a randomly primed DNA probe ( 106 cpm/ml ) of the 3' region of the N-Oct 3 cDNA ( position 1539 -1944 ) at 42°C in 50% formamide , 5 SSC , 1 Denhardt 's and 200 µg/ml denatured herring sperm DNA . |
25 | Hybridization was overnight at 42°C in 50% formamide , 6 SSC , 10 Denhardt 's solution [ 100 Denhardt 's solution is 2% bovine serum albumin ; 2% polyvinylpyrollidone ; 2% Ficoll ] , 50 mg/ml denatured salmon sperm DNA and 0.1% w/v SDS . |
26 | IBM Japan Ltd is to buy an 18.2% stake worth $172,000 in Genex Corp , one of the largest commodity future information service firms in Japan : Genex is an information services unit of Tokyo General Corp and Taiyo General Corp , which are the two biggest commodity brokers in Japan . |
27 | European car makers such as Volkswagen and Fiat , meanwhile , are groaning , facing a fall of some 10% in EC sales this year . |
28 | When the cells were in the log phase of development ( day 6 ) there were 21% of the cells in S phase with 9% in G 2 phase compared with 10% in S phase with 1.55% in G 2 phase when the culture was reaching confluency by day 10 ( Fig 2B ) . |
29 | John Wriglesworth , housing finance analyst at UBS Phillips & Drew , is currently forecasting a further drop of up to 10% in house prices next year . |
30 | She regularly went to Venezuela to stay with her aunt Alicia and her grandmother Rosa in El Tigre . |