Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strongest turnover growth was reported by Gresham Telecomputing , up 200% to £6m ; Lynx , up 84% to £7m ; Instem up 42% at £16m ; Sage Group up 36% at £27m and Kewill Systems up 34% to £42m . |
| 2 | When mounting the mercury switch S1 , position the switch body about 10mm above the board to allow it to be angled to adjust its sensitivity . |
| 3 | During CPR , chest compression at a rate of 80–100/min with sufficient force to produce 4–5 cm of sternal displacement in adults provides a coronary blood flow under 10% of normal . |
| 4 | IBM said that the cost of the actions will be approximately $2,100m net , on top of the $2,100m that it will take to cover the cost of the voluntary redundancies , the $4,200m total to be offset by adoption of Financial Accounting Standard 109(a) , which will allow the company to write back to the profit and loss account about $1,900m in money set aside for deferred taxes . |
| 5 | In the CAT assay nearly 60% of the chloramphenicol was converted by incubation with 50 µg protein of quiescent cell extracts for 15 min ( Table 1 ) . |
| 6 | Flounder caught at Gower and from the Loughor estuary where fish to over 2 lb taken . |
| 7 | Similarly Becker et al reported that if their ulcerative colitis patients had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations , 39% developed pouchitis v only 19% among those patients who had not had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations . |
| 8 | The 32% stake cost just $77,500 in 1981 . |
| 9 | In the lamina propria about 90% of the L1 + cells taken to be granulocytes were by specific marker eosinophil cationic protein shown to be eosinophilic granulocytes ( median number of EG2 + cells examined per specimen : 120 , range 9–225 ; n=7 ) . |
| 10 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 11 | Chain-smoking boss Patrick Sheehy proposed a special toast to the old iron curtain countries where sales of BAT 's American brands leapt 200% . |
| 12 | The US has just 6% of the world 's population but consumes 30% of the world 's energy — compared with India where 20% of the global population use only 2% of the energy . |
| 13 | Images and sound use approximately 4Mb of memory . |
| 14 | Worldwide underwriting losses down 20% from $162.2m ( representing 20.8% of premiums ) to $129.6m ( 15.2% of premiums ) |
| 15 | Centralised society , HGV influence , supermarkets ( food , drink , tobacco ) caused average haul length up 11% since 1979 . |
| 16 | In Britain the courts have recently decided that a leather firm should pay the Cambridge Water Company almost £1m in damages for contaminating one of its boreholes with chlorinated solvents , even though the solvents were disposed of 17 years ago in a way that was legal at the time . |
| 17 | Williams Cos saw first quarter net up 218% at $5.4m , after $95.4m pre-tax gains from the sale of assets this time and $14.6m gains last time , on sales up 26% to $751m . |
| 18 | H&R Block Inc saw third quarter net up 68% at $8.6m , on turnover up 20.3% at $308.9m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $2.5m down from losses of $3.7m last time , on turnover up 12.4% to $711m . |
| 19 | VMX Inc saw third quarter net up 5% at $1.3m , on turnover up 17.8% at $21.9m ; net profit for the nine months was up 48.2% at $4.5m , on turnover that rose 20.6% to $65.4m . |
| 20 | Xilinx Inc saw third quarter net up 22% at $7m , on turnover up 43.3% at $46.2m ; net profit for the nine months was up 8.5% at $19.2m , on turnover that rose 27.3% to $127.8m . |
| 21 | Twin Disc Inc saw third quarter net up 437% at $870,000 , after $305,000 gains from restructuring , on turnover down 5% at $33.5m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $13.3m , after $14.4m charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change , against profits of $64,000 last time , on turnover that rose 3.6% to $100.2m . |
| 22 | Cimco Inc has turned in third quarter net down 36% at $93,312 , on turnover up 4.8% at $17.3m ; net profit for the nine months was up 44.8% at $742,360 , on turnover that rose 55.2% to $55.2m . |
| 23 | 14in colour TV down £30 to £119 . |
| 24 | service inds all contrib. to deteriorating econ . |
| 25 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 26 | tissue paper about 100cm x 100cm , in your chosen colour |
| 27 | A reserve game cost only 50p per child and £1 adult . |
| 28 | Pork loin chops are down 40p a lb to £1.39 , boneless pork steaks down 40p a lb to £1.99 and Somerfield fresh chicken breast fillets down 70p to £2.59 a lb . |
| 29 | In state schools only £38 per pupil is spend in secondary schools and £25 in primaries . |
| 30 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |