Example sentences of "[vb past] a [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday Dunnes Stores ( Billingham ) made a £1,000 offer and a former Oxford blue promised a £50 cheque to end worries that Richardson 's build-up would be affected after taking ten weeks ' unpaid leave from work . |
| 2 | ANTI-FUR trade campaigners launched a £50,000 appeal yesterday after losing a libel case in which it described a mink farm as a ‘ hell hole ’ . |
| 3 | In February 1990 the High Court dismissed a habeus corpus application on behalf of Vincent Cheng , one of the Catholic lay workers detained under the ISA in 1987 accused of being among the ringleaders of the Marxist conspiracy [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 4 | The Ghanaian trial reported no differences in incidence of 19 of 21 symptoms but found a 38% reduction in hospital admissions for the supplemented group . |
| 5 | Reviewing women at between 22–28 years after the index pregnancy ( when they had had abnormal glucose tolerance , but reverted to normal tolerance afterwards ) , he found a 50% prevalence of diabetes and 25% of abnormal glucose tolerance , whereas the controls had rates of 7% and 3% . |
| 6 | Systematically comparing mothers with and without disabled children who had paid work , Baldwin ( 1985 ) found a £5 difference in mean weekly earnings . |
| 7 | In the locked glove compartment they found a £3,137.33 Access bill . |
| 8 | When the householder went to investigate , he found a £500 sit-on mower stolen . |
| 9 | SMOKER Martin Southworth found a £1 coin in his tobacco as he rolled a cigarette at his local in Clapham , South London . |
| 10 | Christian Salvesen reported a 12% increase in interim profit before tax to £40.4m |
| 11 | The Australian airline Qantas reported on March 17 that it was facing " possibly the worst short-term financial position in its 70-year history " , because of losses expected to reach US$270,000,000 in the current financial year , and on March 21 Scandinavian Airlines System reported a $127,000,000 loss for 1990 . |
| 12 | LEICESTER brewers Hoskins held their annual general meeting last month and reported a £167,000 loss for the year to March . |
| 13 | An experimental study from Plymouth reported a 23% reduction in general practitioner referrals after local guidelines were distributed . |
| 14 | The March issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 16 ) reported a $200m court ruling against a US Big Six firm , while another settled out of court for an undisclosed sum . |
| 15 | BAA reported a 46% rise in first half profit before tax to £220m . |
| 16 | Several months later Barclay et al reported a 50% reduction in mortality in children hospitalised with measles , although this result was not statistically significant . |
| 17 | In contrast , Coope and Warrender reported a 50% reduction in total strokes , but the ‘ incidence of myocardial infarction was unaffected by treatment . ’ |
| 18 | The division reported a 15% increase in revenue to $2.58bn , while the auditing and accounting side showed a 11% increase to $2.99bn . |
| 19 | The children 's migraines were reduced by about 74% and the adults reported a 38% drop in headaches and eyestrain . |
| 20 | Delta Air Lines , the third-largest carrier in the USA , reported a $270,000,000 loss in the final quarter , and the domestic carrier Southwest Airlines declared a $4,580,000 quarterly loss . |
| 21 | Mr Austin reported a 220pc growth in net profit to NZ£9.12 million ( £3.03m ) for the year ended August 31 . |
| 22 | The UK firm reported a 17% increase in revenue from £309m to £362m . |
| 23 | First half profit before tax rose by 23% to £160m at Vodafone and by 8% to £378m at Cable and Wireless , whose figure was once again helped by strong results from Mercury which reported a 36% increase in trading profits to £94m . |
| 24 | RMC reported a 11% fall in first half profit before tax to £62.1m . |
| 25 | ICL , suffering under the recession like everyone else , last week reported a 30% drop in trading profits to £78m in 1991 , after a 5 percentage points reduction in gross margins — attributed to higher sales of low-margin personal computers and Unix systems — and a £10m rationalisation charge above that of 1990 . |
| 26 | Scharli et al noted a 23% rise in the use of barium meal examinations over the 55 years of their study , while Breaux et al reported a 34% increase in the use of imaging techniques between 1980 and 1984 , largely attributable to the use of ultrasound . |
| 27 | The underwriting agent reported a 30pc fall for the six months to March 31 , dropping to £2.6m from £3.7m in the same period last year . |
| 28 | The company reported a 10pc increase in profits over the same period with figures up from £253m to £278m . |
| 29 | North-East retailer Conroys Furniture reported a 20pc increase in sales in January at its stores in Stanley , Washington and Middlesbrough . |
| 30 | Despite a rather poor performance ‘ on the field ’ ( as we sportsmen say ) the club 's parent company last week reported a £810,000 profit in the last six months , an improvement over last year 's £2m loss . |