Example sentences of "[n mass] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Aircraft for the Few . |
| 5 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE FEW by Michael Bowyer is probably one of the most comprehensive accounts yet published of all the operational types to see RAF service during the Battle of Britain . |
| 6 | Data for the latter are , of course , affected by privatization itself , but it appears from government figures ( see Note ) that sale of corporations accounted for over 400,000 of the 1.14 million jobs lost from nationalized industries between 1978 and 1988 ( prior to the sale of water and electricity ) . |
| 7 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 8 | Therefore , we considered all subjects as belonging to one group when presenting the data for the these parameters . |
| 9 | Icelanders have to fork out 57p for the same product . |
| 10 | The gentlemen of the town were supplementing the stipend , and the next Master , William Nicholson , gave the sum of £10 in his will of 1597 to pay an Usher to be an assistant , and another £10 for the same purpose came in 1605 under the will of Alexander Torkington . |
| 11 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 12 | Labour 's spend was around £750,000 for the same period , while the Liberal Democrats spent about £175,000 . |
| 13 | Atensin , also diazepam but produced by Berk , is priced at £5.50 for the same amount . |
| 14 | This is not , however , intended as a guide for the connoisseur , but rather as a plain man 's helpmate to getting the best possible fish for the least outlay . |
| 15 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 16 | UK underwriting profit of $3.5m for the half year ( 1992 : $104.8m loss ) following a $7.6m profit in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) . |
| 17 | it sort of played about two or three minutes of music and then it went crrrkkkkkk for a few minutes , that 's why I kept hitting it . |
| 18 | Half year pre-tax profits have zoomed ahead by 92% to almost £27m , a much healtheir performance than expected and better than Racal 's £23.1m for the same period . |
| 19 | Susceptibility to high ‘ g ’ is greatly affected by the duration of the loading , and whereas most people can cope with 3 to 4 g for a few seconds , a sustained loading of that amount may cause loss of vision . |
| 20 | Overall the society produced a comparatively strong 6.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £237.7m for the half year . |
| 21 | ADVERTISING and public relations group , Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell , yesterday saw its shares rise 9p to 422p on the announcement of a 16 per cent rise in profits before tax to £7.7m for the half year to end June . |
| 22 | I mean if I retrain you know , there 's a thousand people for the same job , it 's just looking very bleak . |
| 23 | Wednesday are looking for £800,000 for the former Swindon player , who Chelsea value at closer to £500,000 . |
| 24 | And there is a further payment from Roger , on the 27 June , of £2 : 10s. : 0d. for the same purpose . |
| 25 | William Overton held the courts of Empingham for as little as 40d. , compared with 40s. for the same duty at Burley . |
| 26 | The stew is made first by first stir-frying onions , garlic and squid for a few minutes , and then adding tomatoes , tomato purée and wine . |
| 27 | He sat , shaking , before his a.i. for a few minutes , realising that , whatever he 'd thought before , the following procedures might prove even more risky than the persona transfer itself . |
| 28 | Since then General Electric has paid $150million for a half stake in the Hungarian light bulb manufacturer Tunsgram and General Motors has decided to build an engine plant there . |
| 29 | The present system , which is not more effective , costs £110 for the same result . |
| 30 | What better time then for the Community Action Trust , the organisation behind the Crimestoppers scheme , to put up a reward of £5,000 for the same information ? |