Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm were most people in those days poor ? |
| 2 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 3 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 4 | The car market has been similarly hit by deferred purchases : car sales in April this year were down 24% on April 1990 . |
| 5 | Net earnings per share were down 50% to $0.04 in the quarter , and amounted to $0.34 in the nine months . |
| 6 | Imports were down 15% at $4,125m . |
| 7 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 8 | Hit by the effects of world recession , turnover in 1991 was 42% down on the previous year from £14.59 million to £8.3 million while interim figures were down 39% from £4.9 million in June ‘ 91 to £3 million in June ‘ 92 , resulting in a loss per share of 3.51p . |
| 9 | Net earnings were down 40% at £39m . |
| 10 | The clerks and station officials were normally people of pure Spanish descent , while the managers and engineers at the top were usually British or American . |
| 11 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 12 | The kind of people who were to live in the network of what now amounts to eight properties — six owner-occupied houses and two rented apartment schemes — were not people with severe disabilities and high levels of dependency . |
| 13 | Pulse oximetry using the Ohmeda system was shown to produce valid SaO 2 readings even in highly jaundiced patients although SaO 2 readings obtained were approximately 1% below those of invasive arterial blood gas analysis . |
| 14 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 15 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 16 | ‘ There were always people around the house , like my Dad 's band , and so that 's how I learned to play bass and drums as well , 'cos it was just there . |
| 17 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 yesterday after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc shares were off $2.50 at $32.375 last week after the company 's chief financial officer suggested that the quarter 's results may fall below expectations , prompting analysts at Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs to express concern about the workstation maker 's order levels this quarter . |
| 19 | Iomega Corp has reported first quarter net profits down 32.7% at $1.2m after a gain of $2.3m from an accounting change and a restructuring charge of $982,000 , on turnover that rose 11.8% at $37.0m.Net earnings per share were off 27% at $0.08 . |
| 20 | The proceedings eventually started , though there were still people outside trying to get inside . |
| 21 | The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products . |
| 22 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 23 | Revenues from this were up 77% to £37.2m , while pre-tax profits grew 92% to £7.8 . |
| 24 | Exports were up 4% at $2,787 . |
| 25 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 26 | Although overall revenues here were up 11% to £172.3m , after adjustment for exchange rates , they remained virtually unchanged . |
| 27 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 28 | The European operation reached only 80% of its profit target although UK profits were up 25% in 1992 on sales that rose 17% to £32.4m . |
| 29 | D&B 's European operation only reached 80% of its profit target although UK profits were up 25% in 1992 on sales that rose 17% to £32.4m . |
| 30 | Pre-tax profits were up 54% to £8m , further helped by the interest charge halved at £2.2m . |