Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canaletto has shot up to £8–10 million , which seems high even considering the undisputed quality of the painting , while the Rembrandt has plunged to £5 million . |
| 2 | Over the last five years criminal legal aid has soared from £25 million to £47 million while advice and assistance has gone up from £5.9 million to £15.4 million . |
| 3 | With McGrath banned and David O'Leary injured there is no familiar centre-half cover and Charlton has pencilled in £3.75 million Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane as an emergency defender if things go wrong . |
| 4 | In England and Wales , the sex ratio at birth has fallen from 106.3in 1971–5 to 104.8in 1988 ( Shaw 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Because of the increased efficiency of our exploration programme , our spending on this activity has fallen from £744 million in 1990 to £xxx million in 1992 . |
| 6 | The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect . |
| 7 | Will the Minister confirm that in the Prime Minister 's first year , far from escaping from short-termism , 45,000 businesses have gone under , 70,000 homes have been repossessed , 700,000 more people have lost their jobs and manufacturing investment has fallen by £2 billion this year and , according to the CBI , will fall by another £400 million even in 1992 ? |
| 8 | The price of coffee , which rose 50% from a 20-year low between August and the end of 1992 , has fallen by 7% this week , to an average of 60 cents a lb . |
| 9 | INVESTORS are exploring whether they have grounds for legal action against MTM , the troubled chemicals group whose value has collapsed from £256 million in February to £22 million . |
| 10 | The amount of tax coming in every year has dropped by £30 billion , with companies going to the wall and millions of people losing their jobs and claiming dole . |
| 11 | A week of expert talks , meetings and practical visits , based on the Institute of Sociology in the Kuskovo Palace complex in Moscow followed by a weekend in Leningrad sight-seeing and socialising included at £445 full board 19–30th March . |
| 12 | Interest alone on the gigantic US deficit has grown to $204 billion — more than the money spent on all domestic programmes except defence . |
| 13 | The revenue lost through exempting the sale of an individual 's home from capital gains has risen from £1.5 billion to £2.6 billion since 1979 . |
| 14 | As a result of falling CD yields the price has risen from £102 406.41 to £102 901.66 . |
| 15 | Indeed , the allocation for improvement work in Cleveland 's schools has risen from £90,000 this year to £1.4 million next year . |
| 16 | In that regard , the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire will be aware that since we took office in 1979 the expenditure has risen from £4.5 billion to more than £12 billion . |
| 17 | Over the same period the cost of these schemes has risen from £10.63 million to £24.81 million , partly the result of the larger number of schemes , the increasing cost of materials and labour and perhaps also the increasing scale and thoroughness of many of the schemes carried out . |
| 18 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
| 19 | Subscription income has risen from £.743 m to £.779 m , an increase of 4.8% . |
| 20 | In the same period , civil legal aid has moved from £15.7 million to £16.5 million , a fall of nearly 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 21 | Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales . |
| 22 | The EC put a figure of £44.4m on the payments , plus interest , but BAe has settled for £42.2m net of tax relief . |
| 23 | After taking account of taxation and minority interests the profit attributable to shareholders has increased to £10.7 million ( up 11% ) . |
| 24 | Since 1985 , he says , the number of MIPS in each machine has increased by 35% each year , but the price per MIPS of large systems has gone down by 15% . |
| 25 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 26 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 27 | The department 's budget in this area has increased from £218 million in 1981–82 to £310 million this financial year . |
| 28 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
| 29 | Wang Laboratories Inc vice president , Richard Orlando , the guy in charge of the Wang/IBM alliance , has split for Data General Corp . |
| 30 | The Reagan administration has asked for $709.3 million for ballistic missile defence ( BMD ) for 1984 , and has proposed more than double that for 1985 . |