Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter . |
| 2 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 3 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
| 4 | The only way to discover what on earth this means is probably to fork out £60 for the ten-week course or £48 for the eight-week course . |
| 5 | Feare ( 1970a ) thought it to be at least 90% during the first winter . |
| 6 | US prices go from $2,000 for a 12 user licence to $12,000 for a 250 user copy . |
| 7 | A DRUNKEN driver who hit speeds of 100mph during a 35-mile police chase was yesterday jailed for five months . |
| 8 | Room rates are pitched at £69 for a single and up to £140 for a de luxe double . |
| 9 | We appreciate what a stumbling block this can be and will lend you 100% as a first time buyer . |
| 10 | The ewes and lambs should then be grazed on pasture which , in temperate areas at least , should not have been used by sheep during the previous year . |
| 11 | In lighter tone the Mad Hatters Tea Party was a great success , raising £88.86 for the national RBLWS birthday scheme . |
| 12 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 13 | MAKE : BMW MODEL : 520i SE AGE : 1990 ( H-Reg ) MILEAGE : 28,000 PRICE : £14,500 FOR the sleekest , sexiest saloon shape on the road , it 's hard to beat the BMW 5 series . |
| 14 | The 600 is priced from £13,995 for the 620i to £21,995 for the top-of-the-range 623GSi which I tested recently . |
| 15 | For all CypA atoms , including side chains , the average r.m.s.d. between the observed and five-fold calculated positions , is 0.61Å and for C α atoms this r.m.s.d. is 0.26Å . |
| 16 | It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan — in total a yearly income of just £2,685 . |
| 17 | Wet moorland may support 1 sheep for every 3/4 hectares ; moorland converted to a rye grass sward can support 10 sheep per hectare . |
| 18 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 19 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 20 | The money they had to pay the sheep for the Cuddly Woolly Protection Racket did seem a lot . |
| 21 | Royal Mail is giving a package of technical support and advice worth £3,500 as a first prize , to enable the winner to make the best use of postcodes in her business . |
| 22 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 23 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 24 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 25 | M&J Ross and Son of Romesbeoch , Shawhead , Dumfries , received a 3,400gn bid for their Zora of Romesbeoch from J&JW Ions of Thorneyburn , Hexham and RT Lawson and Son , Airlies Farm , Wigtown , went to 2,800gns for the second prizewinner Zulu , the September l991 bull brought out by Ian Henderson of Langholm . |
| 26 | SCO claims 31% of multi-user accounting systems costing under £50,000 installed in the UK run on its flavour of Unix , whilst London-based market research firm , Ovum Ltd — which says accounting is by far the largest application software sector in the UK — forecasts an annual growth rate of around 23% for the Unix-based accounting software market to 1995 . |
| 27 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 28 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 29 | He also led Chrysler 's 1991 and 1993 stock offerings , which raised more than $2,000m for the troubled company . |
| 30 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |