Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As mentioned , GTI turned in pre-tax profits up 104% to £8.1m , while sales grew 37% to £60.9m . |
| 2 | A supplier of accounting software and related products for personal computers , Sage saw pre-tax profits up 24% to £5.4m , while turnover rose 44.8% to £21m . |
| 3 | Accountancy software supplier Systems Union Ltd , has turned in a record result for its 1992 fiscal year , with pre-tax profits up 280% to £1.5m , on turnover that increased 47.6% to £12.1m : the privately-owned London-based company has operations in Europe , the US and the Asia-Pacific region , and opened a new office in Hong Kong in November , with the aim of addressing the expanding South East Asian market and supporting the existing network of local distributors and agents ; it now boasts more than 100 agents , value-added resellers and distributors worldwide ; chairman John Pemberton aims to expand this network further during 1993 ; the group also launched version 4.0 of its SunSystems product line at the end of last year ; SunSystems comprises two main elements — SunAccount , a fully-integrated ledger accounting package , and SunBusiness , or sales purchase order entry , invoicing and inventory and control software . |
| 4 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 5 | HARDANGER , the retail property developer , posted pre-tax profits up £1.3million to £8.37million . |
| 6 | Despite net assets up 35% to £458 million at Stanhope , the city is unimpressed with the sector . |
| 7 | New crime figures for England and Wales confirmed 1990 as the worst year on record , with recorded crimes up 17% to more than 4m . |
| 8 | Conglomerate Hanson , strongly dependent on recovery in the US market , is unlikely to impress with year-end figures down 17% to £1.09bn. , with the dividend rise for the year put at 1% to 11.1p . |