Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Export values rose 7pc to £29.6bn while imports were up 6.5pc to £34.1bn . |
| 2 | Export values rose 7% to £29.6bn while imports were up 6.5% to £34.1bn . |
| 3 | January sales to UK resellers rose 30% to £290,000 and February saw a record £350,000 turnover . |
| 4 | January sales to UK resellers rose 30% to £290,000 and February saw a record £350,000 turnover . |
| 5 | The Uniface database interface drivers cost $750 to $40,000 : the Uniface device interface for Ingres 6.4 will ship in the third quarter , no price given . |
| 6 | GUI drivers cost $350 to $32,000 depending on platform and configuration . |
| 7 | 3Com Corp has reported third quarter net profits of $10.2m against a loss last time of $4.4m , on turnover that rose 51.9% at $161.4m ; net profit for the nine months soared 1,100% to $25.3m on turnover up 50.8% at $449.7m ; net per share , $0.31 in the quarter , rose 1.030% to 0.79 in the nine months . |
| 8 | Bad debt losses jumped 40pc to £329.3m from £235.9m , including £285.0m on domestic mortgages . |
| 9 | The products cost $750 to $3,000 depending on CPU type ; all out now . |
| 10 | The Independent claims the 15p cut which slashed The Times cover price to 30p is a case of ‘ predatory pricing , ’ banned under the Companies Act . |
| 11 | Thus shares in Betterware Consumer Products dropped 12p to 180p yesterday as the market knocked the retail sector for six in the wake of the interest rate hike . |
| 12 | BTP 's enlarged specialist chemicals activities boosted turnover to £60.1million , from £44.8million , in the September half and profit rose to £9.6 million from £5.6 million , including an exceptional £3.1 million , from the Rizzi engineering sale in Italy . |
| 13 | The upgrade package is $9,755 , and the new 3270 models cost $9,160 to $14,580 , also in December . |
| 14 | In other words , NVQs give recognition to people for putting what they have learnt into practice at work . |
| 15 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2% to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5% to £30.9bn . |
| 16 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2pc to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5pc to £30.9bn . |
| 17 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 18 | Several countries refuse entry to people who are HIV positive or who have AIDS . |
| 19 | Long distance margins rose 2% to 37% from a year ago . |
| 20 | According to director of finance and business strategy Keith Todd , average margins dropped 6% to 35% , which represents a reduction in gross margins of £109m . |
| 21 | According to director of finance and business strategy Keith Todd , average margins dropped 6% to 35% , which represents a reduction in gross margins of £109m . |
| 22 | To add to the festivities , they also decided to offer two all-expenses paid tickets to staff in Australia — and Chris and Paul 's were the first names out of the hat . |
| 23 | During the quarter , software revenues rose 11.3% to $2,700m and maintenance revenues rose 7.1% to $1,900m , while services revenues soared 38% to $1,800m , and rentals and financing revenues rose 11.3% to $1,200m , so that all the pain was in the hardware side , although the pressure to alleviate the software burden on customers is becoming irresistible . |
| 24 | Rentals and financing revenues fell 12% to $1,087m . |
| 25 | Rentals and financing revenues fell 12% to $1,087m . |
| 26 | The weakest performers were Pegasus Group with turnover down 35% to £9m and BBB Design where revenues fell 34% to £2m . |
| 27 | Revenues grew 16% to £1,870m , though 14% of this was related to acquisitions , most notably Nokia Data . |
| 28 | Costs increased 262% to $43m due largely to a $26.8m write-off of capitalised software development costs in excess of estimated net realisable value . |
| 29 | The extent to which individual disciplines make use of libraries in their researches may be expected to vary , but when one sees that some universities spend 50% to 100% per capita more than others , it does suggest that the value placed by university managers on their libraries varies in some highly individualistic ways . |
| 30 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |