Example sentences of "[unc] [prep] the [adj] months " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Switzerland 's wholesale prices rose 0.7% in the 12 months to November . |
| 2 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 3 | American wholesale prices rose by 3.7% in the 12 months to January — the slowest annual rise for six months . |
| 4 | France 's broad money grew by 4.8% in the 12 months to March . |
| 5 | Private-sector bank loans increased by only 1.1% in the 12 months to March , the slowest pace on record . |
| 6 | The rate of increase slipped to 3 per cent during the period compared with 3.6pc in the three months to the end of January , the Labour Research Department said in a survey of more than 600 settlements . |
| 7 | Loaded down with non-performing assets , the banks have balked at new lending , which grew by just 1.1% over the 12 months to April , its slowest ever . |
| 8 | Britain 's broad-money growth quickened to 14.4% in the 12 months to November ; its narrow-money growth slowed to 3.1% . |
| 9 | Japanese retail sales leapt 7.5% in the 12 months to September . |
| 10 | This system would be duplicated ad infinitum over the following months . |
| 11 | Germany 's retail sales soared by 9.2% in the 12 months to November . |
| 12 | My Lords i in the eighteen months I 've been privileged to be a Member of Lordships House , I 've often asked myself what our functions are . |
| 13 | Its broad money growth has slowed sharply , from 13.2% in the 12 months to May 1990 to 8.6% in the year to December . |
| 14 | German consumer-price inflation fell to 2.7% in the 12 months to December , from 3.0% in November . |
| 15 | Its industrial output also fell , by 3.5% in the 12 months to March . |
| 16 | Britain 's wide-money growth eased slightly to 3.5% in the 12 months to April . |
| 17 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 18 | The rate of interest fixed by the Commissioners on Landed Securities ( which was fixed at 11 ½ per cent for the six months from and after Martinmas 1974 and which will continue at that rate for the six months from and after Whitsunday 1975 ) . |
| 19 | Resort Hotels announced a pre-tax profit increase of 27 per cent for the six months to 31 October 1991 , while the Rank Organisation 's pre-tax profits slumped 20 per cent from £312 million in 1990 to £250.5 million in 1991 . |
| 20 | Reed International , changing its year-end to conform with Elsevier 's , saw pre-tax profits rise 10 per cent for the nine months to December to £137.1 million . |
| 21 | ’ results , plus a strong performance from plantations , helped boost 's profits by 19 per cent for the 12 months to £85 million compared with £71.2 million the previous year . |
| 22 | Looking at the other indicators , employment dropped 1.4% in the nine months to April . |
| 23 | Heavy commitments in the social security budget had driven government finances deeply into deficit , and industrial production had slumped as interest rates rose ; manufacturing output was estimated to have fallen by 6 per cent in the eight months to August , and Sweden 's normally low unemployment rate had climbed from 1.5 per cent in January 1990 to more than 3 per cent . |
| 24 | Overseas business accounted for 55 per cent of last year 's orders , rising to 75 per cent in the early months of the current year . |
| 25 | The yen had fallen by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , and by 25 per cent in the twelve months since March 1989 . |
| 26 | With no volume gains and falling prices , like-for-like sales in shoes fell back by 1.5 per cent in the six months to 31 July . |
| 27 | The number of store cards rose by 1.4 per cent in the six months to September 1989 . |
| 28 | International waste management company Attwoods pushed profits ahead more than 11 per cent in the six months to January after a good performance from key sectors of its US business . |
| 29 | A return of £21.9 million on its broking activities allowed the group to boost pre-tax profits by 12 per cent in the six months to 31 December , from £30 million at halfway in 1991 to £34 million . |
| 30 | On the export side the volume of cars shot up 27 per cent in the three months to November , compared with the previous three months though other consumer , intermediate and capital goods showed much more modest increases of 5.5 per cent , 4 per cent and 9 per cent , respectively . |