Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the half year to September , Merrydown reported profits down 19% to £760,000 reflecting strong competition . |
| 2 | A second received burns over 60pc of his body and was taken by helicopter to hospital , where he was reported to be seriously ill . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profits soared from £7.8m to £26.1m , pushing shares ahead 3p to 221p . |
| 4 | The ships are worth Something , and they 're about the only hope of securing creditors about 5p in the pound . |
| 5 | A source within Hewlett-Packard UK claimed that its first quarter 700 Series workstation figures showed revenues up 120% over the same period last year . |
| 6 | Massachusetts-based Andover Controls did well , reporting profits up 33% to £5m . |
| 7 | The worse-than-expected results knocked shares down 13p to 427p , before they closed at 428p , down 12p . |
| 8 | Leasing finances over 30% of British investment . |
| 9 | The perch lays eggs around 2mm in diameter in long strings as flat bands or as a meshwork in the vegetation . |
| 10 | The Georgia Power Company pays chemists about $30 per specimen for analysis and spends another $20 each on administering the programme . |
| 11 | Windows 3.1 can now handle images over 16Mb in size , which is about par for the course with large four-colour , high-resolution bitmaps . |
| 12 | None of the middle-class men had incomes below £30 per week and over half had incomes in excess of £60 . |
| 13 | of all pensioners have incomes below £70 per week ? |