Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But according to Money Management 's annual survey of with-profits policies , actual cash payouts after that time averaged only £1,173 in 1992 . |
| 2 | By 1988 bank borrowing accounted for only 53% of their external financing ; debt equalled only 63% of their assets . |
| 3 | Even before provisions against third-world debt and local-authority swaps , Midland made only £616m in 1989 — 11% less than a year earlier . |
| 4 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 5 | It made only £450,000 from ‘ normal ’ foreign-exchange dealings for customers last year . |
| 6 | By April Gallup found only 24% of voters satisfied with her performance , making her the least popular Prime Minister since opinion polling had begun . |
| 7 | The final audit of the accounts found only £45,220 of stock on the premises instead of the £570,680 declared . |
| 8 | Last year , opinion polls found only 10% of Ukrainians wanting their country to be nuclear-armed . |
| 9 | A telephone poll conducted by TV Asahi on January 17th found only 25% in favour of the war and 53% against . |
| 10 | They took the house over and sucked in people from everywhere and telephones rang with careless invitations and orders to wine merchants and grocers . |
| 11 | It provided over £500m in capital in 1987 to nine hundred businesses . |
| 12 | It also provided approximately 40% of the stipends and housing costs of the 11,500 serving clergy . |
| 13 | The shares moved up 2p to 132p yesterday . |
| 14 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 15 | In the half it used up £21m of this provision , and the net cash outflow of the group was £40m . |
| 16 | The only one of the renewable sources currently commercially exploited on a significant scale is hydro-electric power which in 1983 contributed about 7% to world energy supply . |
| 17 | For a 30×30cm cushion cover , we used about 7.5m of 15mm-wide ribbon in each of two colours ( 15m in total ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I found out 80% of Fijians who served on Christmas Island are dead . |
| 19 | When the castle fell to the queen 's forces in 1327 they found there £1,000 in coin belonging to Despenser , together with royal treasure of £13,000 in coin in twenty-six barrels and over 600 pieces of plate and jewellery . |
| 20 | This year 's combined social and fund-raising activities provided over £500 towards church expenses . |
| 21 | Police found over £3,000 of the equipment at Paul Summersgill 's sister 's home and Summersgill later produced the rest of the £12,000 of equipment . |
| 22 | I picked up her pay packet once and she got just £45 for three nights ’ work . |
| 23 | USL repaid approximately $13m to AT&T from the proceeds and the remainder allows it to fund its cash flow requirements . |
| 24 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 25 | At this point it becomes impossible to determine in what exact sequence events happen but essentially computer memory dropped below $1,000 for a megabyte which allowed a complete page of A4 paper to be created in memory at 300 dots per inch . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Griffin et al found in 10% of their patients that oxygen saturation dropped below 90% for longer than a minute even when supplementary oxygen was used and only modest doses of sedative had been given . |
| 27 | It filled only 60% of them last year , a good season for Greece as a whole ; it is hoping to do better in 1993 . |
| 28 | They were amazed and ’ aghast ’ when they received only £4,830 from the family health services authority . |
| 29 | Successful users comprised only 11% of the total . |
| 30 | By 1989/90 , public expenditure comprised only 39% of GDP , the lowest ratio since 1965/66 . |