Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Current expenditure accounted for £S37,575 million and investment expenditure for £S24,300 million . |
2 | However , the process is by no means uniform and Table 5.3 shows that a small number of towns in the rural districts actually lost population between 1971 and 1981 , although the dominant trend was increases of over 10 per cent in both of the rural categories at the foot of the table . |
3 | It is by no means certain that material rewards are the only means by which societies can induce their members to fill social positions as the theory seems to suggest . |
4 | For 1992–3 it has budgeted revenue support of £30.2 million and capital investment of £8 million . |
5 | The package , worth 6 per cent more than the previous year 's assistance , went a long way towards the $9,200 million required by India to meet an expected current-account deficit of $6,000 million and debt repayments of $3,200 million . |
6 | The crisis began in October 1985 after the ITC 's buffer stock ran out of funds , leaving gross debts of £900 million and tin prices tumbling from £9,000 a tonne to £3,500 a tonne by the middle of 1986 [ see pp. 34518-20 ] . |
7 | African countries had received $895 million in new net transfers , and Asian countries $470 million , but Latin American and Caribbean countries had made net repayments of $2,060 million and European , Middle Eastern and North African countries $982 million . |
8 | Total 1990 exports were estimated at $300,000,000 , compared with current-account payments of $1,150 million and debt repayments of a further $300,000,000 ( on its total foreign debt of approximately $5,000 million ) . |
9 | Therefore , it would take an offer of £2 million before City would consider a sale . |
10 | So it will be with industry if the money was needed to make good the other deficiencies of sales potential and management then the scheme will fail . |
11 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
12 | ( Jiacha 's ‘ financial reasons ’ were understood to be a reward of $4 million and resettlement in California under the Federal Witness Protection Program . ) |
13 | One side effect of being Scotland 's largest PR firm — with a turnover of £3.75 million and fee income of £1.8 million last year — is that , rightly or wrongly , it can give potential clients the impression of being both expensive and impersonal . |
14 | The Government have supported the coal industry since 1979 with a total investment of £17 billion and productivity has improved , particularly in recent years . |
15 | Output of work at Key Stage 1 will often be through means other than writing . |
16 | The catch is that all the works are in media other than bronze . |
17 | Dalgety reported turnover up 8 per cent to £2.1 billion from £1.9 billion and trading profit up 7 per cent to £61 million from £58 million . |
18 | Sauté the mushrooms in duck fat and drain . |
19 | In the karst region of Yugoslavia there are pure limestones up to 4000m thick and part of the area is more than 2000 m above sea level . |
20 | Operating profits dropped by 18 per cent to £105.9 million and interest charges were slashed by two-thirds to £5.4 million . |
21 | With fixed assets close to £1 million and capital and reserves of over £868,000 , there can be little doubt as to the commercial nature of the Dart Valley Railway Plc . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It went up to £1.3 million when tunnelling had to be done . |
24 | The three-year collaboration on this multimedia workshop aims to create two prototype multimedia applications for various categories of visitors and to experiment with putting such applications on media such as CD-ROM and Compact Disk-Interactive . |
25 | These stems can be anything from 3 to 4ft tall and support , during summer , dense heads of crimson-purple flowers . |
26 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
27 | [ These appointments were omitted inadvertently from the roundups of republican appointments on p. 37384 and p. 37460 . ] |
28 | Underwriting losses more than halved to £259 million and investment income rose by 20 per cent to £210 million . |
29 | Premium income fell by 1 per cent to £3,423 million and investment income was down 4 per cent to £486 million , mainly as a result of falling interest rates , but underwriting claims reduced . |
30 | The L-Series systems are targeted to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |