Example sentences of "up [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the year ending Mar 31 , 1991 , we have made mainly useful progress with the herd average moving up 770kg to 7320kg a cow of standard milk ( ie corrected to 3.8% butterfat and 3.2% protein ) or 7400kg at 3.89BF and 3.03 protein uncorrected . |
| 2 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 3 | The idea was to persuade 1,000 ‘ rich radicals ’ with incomes of over £12,000 per year ( the Walsh criterion for being rich ) to put up £1,000 each . |
| 4 | AN ELDERLY couple gave up £1,000 worth of golden wedding presents to help the blind . |
| 5 | ARTHUR and Kathleen Lea , of Manfield , near Darlington , gave up £1,000 worth of golden wedding anniversary presents by asking friends and relatives to donate money to help sponsor a guide dog instead . |
| 6 | Golden Freeze is not well handicapped and has gone up 4lb since finishing second to Joint Sovereignty in the Mackeson . |
| 7 | The X Business Group is predicting sales of PC X servers will top 175,000 units this year , up 300% from 1991 , when total shipments were 58,500 , with database application by far the most popular . |
| 8 | Informix Corp had a good one , reporting fourth quarter net profits up 166% at $22.2m on turnover that rose 78.5% at $96.0m . |
| 9 | Hammerson shot up 45p to 855p in sympathy . |
| 10 | Pre-tax profits jumped to £15.5 million against £13.9 million last time with turnover up 16pc from £168.3 million to £195.3 million . |
| 11 | South-west England recorded a 38pc drop , Wales and south-east England each dropped 22pc while in Scotland where the recession began later failures were up 16pc and there was a 3pc increase in north and north-west England . |
| 12 | Within Japan the robot is increasingly likely to be found in use outside its traditional manufacturing environment , with domestic shipments to the non-manufacturing sector up 50% last year . |
| 13 | Moya conceded that hardware sales had plummeted , but he said that RISC workstations , software and in particular services — revenues here were up 50% — had all shown growth . |
| 14 | Teleglobe Inc saw fourth quarter net profits up 50% at $14.1m , on turnover up 11% at $111.9m ; net losses for the year to December 31 stood at $39.7m , after $71.5m charges related to restructuring and the write-down of assets , against profits of $20.2m , on turnover that rose 11.6% to $383.2m . |
| 15 | SparcWare is driven by the need to lower the support costs that eat up 50% of every software engineering dollar and expand the market for independent software vendors . |
| 16 | Agreed , the weekend trade is down but residential courses have been up 10% and day courses up 50% this year . |
| 17 | The total investment in acquisitions and additions to fixed assets was £17.3 million ( up 50% ) . |
| 18 | On subjects , whereas ‘ Social Studies ’ made up 67% , ‘ Arts ’ 26% and ‘ Natural Sciences ’ 7% of the course programme in 1953–54 by 1957–58 the proportions were 64% , 26% and 10% respectively . |
| 19 | Net earnings per share , up 67% to $0.20 in the quarter , slipped 13% to $0.20 in the nine months . |
| 20 | A strong performance by the components and semiconductors division helped the better than expected overall results and a surge in chip sales helped propel the components division to operating profits of $122m , up 67% . |
| 21 | Net earnings per share , up 67% to $0.20 in the quarter , slipped 13% to $0.20 in the nine months . |
| 22 | MORE evidence of an upturn in the housing market came yesterday with home builders reporting more than 16,400 new starts in April up 17pc on the same month last year . |
| 23 | And a Scottish Partner Centre has also been set up to attract companies that are interested in either expanding or setting up headquarters in the region . |
| 24 | Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region . |
| 25 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 26 | Profits edged up £59,000 to £2.12m before tax . |
| 27 | The average food purchase per person was £13.37 , up 19p on this time last year . |
| 28 | It looks as though USL was valued at around $355m , up $30m from when they did the private placement 18 months ago . |
| 29 | Of the many more books worth seeing , Electrical Conduction and Behaviour in ‘ Simple ’ Invertebrates edited by G. Shelton ( Oxford UP £40 ) researches the parts other neurobiologies can not reach . |
| 30 | On the date on which the dividend was declared , a resolution was passed to call up £40 per preference share . |