Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 2 | The discount rate used to appraise projects in the non-trading part of the public sector will be nudged up from 5% to 6% . |
| 3 | Dividends are nudged up from 13.7p to 14.3p , with the final of 9.62p payable on June 1 . |
| 4 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 5 | Profits had shot up from £6m to £27m and the share price had risen — on a trajectory a jumbo jet pilot can only dream of — from 170p at the beginning of 1991 to 899p by the year-end . |
| 6 | TVS shares shot ahead by 4½p to 26p on the news and there is speculation that a major battle could be in the wings . |
| 7 | ‘ I might tell you I persuaded her to cut down the list Buckmaster had drawn up of people to be informed . |
| 8 | Suitable middleweight lambs sold readily from 164p to 173p per kilo , with several choice lots from 178p to a top of 182p for 22.5k at £41 from J Russell , Poyntzpass . |
| 9 | Pentos shares were marked down by 14p to 56p on the day of the announcement ( Wednesday 30th December ) , wiping over £19m off the group 's market capitalisation . |
| 10 | That , I was told , led to their claim , by agreement , being reduced now from £7,171.50 to £6,439.72 but , moreover , the claim that they put forward took no account of the fact that the second day of the hearing was occupied in consideration of the mother 's claim for a contact order as to which no possible complaint could be made against the local authority . |
| 11 | BellSouth Corp , Atlanta warns that first quarter profits will be reduced by about $20m to $25m or about $0.05 per share because of costs associated with the severe winter weather that scoured the south : among the extraordinary costs are labour and material costs to maintain and restore telephone service . |
| 12 | Three separate security systems costing £31,650 would cover the lending library , childrens library and reference library and theft rates could be expected to be reduced by from 30pc to 4pc . |
| 13 | And on Wednesday Judy Robinson is set to leave the Grey Horse pub , Bank Top Judy 's rent has gone up from £13,000 to £25,000 . |
| 14 | Salad consumption has gone up from 1.44oz to 1.89oz per week . |
| 15 | Over the last 20 years a pint of milk has increased five-fold from 5p to 26p today , and a loaf of bread has gone up from 10p to 47p . |
| 16 | The three sideholes were oriented radially at 120° to one another and were 5 cm apart . |
| 17 | The item was keenly competed for by two telephone bidders but it was finally knocked down for £790 to a bidder in the saleroom . |
| 18 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 19 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 20 | Half year pre-tax profits have zoomed ahead by 92% to almost £27m , a much healtheir performance than expected and better than Racal 's £23.1m for the same period . |
| 21 | The share of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has edged up from 9% to 11% . |
| 22 | But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase . |
| 23 | Operating profits improved strongly from £10.9m to £16.5m . |