Example sentences of "[n mass] in [adj] month " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it revealed that profits jumped from just £700,000 to £3,500,000 in six months . |
| 2 | Book sales are reported to have slipped 20% in 12 months . |
| 3 | Symptoms included weight loss ( defined as an unintended decrease of body weight of more than 5% in six months ) , diarrhoea ( defined as more than three loose bowel movements a day ) , epigastric and abdominal pain , nausea , vomiting , dysphagia , and fever of unknown origin . |
| 4 | Assume a German exporter is due $10m in three months ' time . |
| 5 | Stall rentals had risen as much as 100% in six months from the beginning of I 979 and the administration began charging for a number of fictitious additional costs , such as repairs to electricity installations which were in theory covered by the municipal government . |
| 6 | That said , we have seen so many people in recent months who wanted to move but could not do so until they knew what was going to happen to their take-home income . ’ |
| 7 | Polling was cancelled in some villages because all their inhabitants had fled the escalating violence , which has killed 140 people in five months . |
| 8 | In January rampaging inflation ( 70% in that month alone , on top of a rate for the previous 12 months estimated at 700–900% ) and a tight wage squeeze produced a 40% drop in the average Pole 's standard of living . |
| 9 | German importer requires $250,000 in one month 's time . |
| 10 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 11 | A COUPLE have appealed to Merseysiders to help them raise £15,000 in three months to send their son to a pioneering medical clinic in the United States . |
| 12 | By Philippa Bellis , health reporter A COUPLE have appealed to Merseysiders to help them raise £15,000 in three months to send their son to a pioneering medical clinic in America . |
| 13 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 14 | Now the 38-year-old player-manager , who has spent more than £4m in 17 months at the helm , will back Wednesday with a pledge of his own , signing a long-term deal within the next fortnight . |
| 15 | Mr Tholen chaired their appeal committee which raised £250,000 in three months and he continues to invest a small covenant in the school . |
| 16 | This slashed profits by 41 per cent to £9,700,000 in six months . |