Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [n mass] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car market has been similarly hit by deferred purchases : car sales in April this year were down 24% on April 1990 . |
| 2 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 3 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 7 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 8 | In the fixed-commission mid-1960s , profit margins were about 25% on total revenue . |
| 9 | The volume of semiconductor business was up 8% on last year after product line pruning . |