Example sentences of "[n mass] in [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers of senior house officers have risen by 14% in three years — far more than was intended — and , by not substantially reducing the number of registrars , JPAC has failed to keep to its terms of reference . |
| 2 | In real terms , the figure has risen almost 25% in ten years . |
| 3 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |
| 4 | It breeds rapidly — a single female may produce 200–300 offspring in one year — and its mass production and distribution present few difficulties , although it does not thrive everywhere , is subject to disease and predation itself and may sometimes eat the wrong prey . |
| 5 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 6 | A SPIN-OFF from the Teesside Women 's Cancer Prevention Unit appeal , which has raised over £ 5m in four years , became £500 richer yesterday thanks to staff at the Royal Mail sorting office in Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | Ledbetter , who was attracted to the subsidiary out of patriotic , America-first aspirations , believes the until will be worth $100m in two years . |
| 8 | But look , ’ — David was beginning to spray ideas around the small office in his enthusiasm — ‘ Peru has a rich sea but no advanced fishing vessel and yet a medium-sized ship can net ten million dollars of fish in one year ! ’ |
| 9 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 10 | My name is and , er it appears to me , sir that you like to make life difficult for the managers to negotiate wage settlements with the employees of the company I note that your salary has increased by more than fifty percent in one year . |
| 11 | In order to retain flexibility the Directors propose that the 5% in five year limit should be continued indefinitely . |
| 12 | He alleges that when Lairds was sold in the 1980s , VSEL agreed to pay £40m to the Treasury if their profits exceeded £100m in five years . |
| 13 | But the Money advice Trust , set up in 1990 with the aim of raising £9M in three years towards money advice services , has so far received only £275,000 in cash , although another £349,000 has been pledged and staff have been seconded to the value of £450,000 . |
| 14 | Some fear this may have harmed the LME 's reputation , and could drive prices , which have fallen by 50% in two years , still lower . |
| 15 | This effectively reduces the number of hauliers required and Distribution Services has reduced its supplier base by over 50% in two years [ chart 2 ] . |
| 16 | Mintel has extrapolated the figures , assuming the same level of inflation , and reckons the simplest funeral could cost a bereaved family £6,230 in 25 years ' time . |
| 17 | Rain-forest litter in situ is reduced by 63% in I year , but only by 41.7% in the fernland ; fernland litter is reduced by 24.6% in the forest but only 15.7% in situ . |
| 18 | Children playing with matches killed 37 people in one year . |
| 19 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 20 | An extra one per cent on National Insurance Contributions , costing the average taxpayer £200 in one year , is also scheduled for 1994 . |
| 21 | They practically doubled the council staff in 5 years . |
| 22 | The owners of 150 distilleries have now agreed to sell power to the state electricity companies , and estimate that by replacing the present steam turbines with gas turbines they can increase their output from 200 MW to 3,000 MW in 15 years . |
| 23 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 24 | Well here 's news for IBM — at the present rate , it will have lost 100% of its mainframe sales in five years , almost all of them not to competing IBM products but to competing companies . |
| 25 | From sales support to head of IFA Sales in 24 years — ‘ Brilliant ! ’ |
| 26 | THE uniform business rate , which almost tripled Roger 's rates to £6,250 in two years ; |
| 27 | Muffet the bearcat peers out curiously at her new home in London Zoo , where she and new partner Brendan are the first of their species in 20 years . |
| 28 | Even within a mobile industry the staff turnover of 95% in 4 years was high and as the office handled a steady influx of new faces , there were subtle changes in the chemistry of the staff . |
| 29 | One problem is that although they stay slim they grow very tall , up to 11ft in six years . |
| 30 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |