Example sentences of "[noun pl] [n mass] [adj] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a move which pension fund managers describe as ‘ pension fund taxation by the back door ’ , the decision to cut from 25 to 20 per cent the tax credit that can be reclaimed on dividends , has reduced the yield on the FT All-Share Index from 4.1 per cent to 3.9 per cent and could cost the funds £1 billion a year . |
| 2 | SICKNESS absence from work is costing UK employers £13 billion a year but the absence rate is falling , writes Bill Millar . |
| 3 | NCVO estimated the 12 per cent tax on the national lottery would cost charities £36 million a year . |
| 4 | Top management now costs taxpayers £251.5 million a year — up from just £25.7 million in 1987 . |
| 5 | Fitting catalysts is expected to cost British motorists £800 million a year . |
| 6 | If these figures turned out to be right , it would be possible to compensate western farmers for their losses in full , greatly improve Eastern Europe 's hard-currency earnings , and still leave EC taxpayers and consumers £1.5 billion a year better off . |