Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [n mass] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beau Ranger , as expected , has top weight of 12st and must give 24lb to Prize Asset . |
| 2 | The R4000a should give 30% to 50% better performance than its predecessor , he said . |
| 3 | Volume users should pay 30% to 40% less than on analogue cellular , lower-volume users will get three times as many minutes for the same price as cellular . |
| 4 | It was therefore important that a benevolent society should mould people to goodness and there should be no expression of negative emotion such as anger and punishment . |
| 5 | A wine may have 7% to 14% while whisky must have 40% . |
| 6 | The Federation of Small Businesses said it was a ‘ lifeboat Budget ’ which would give £500m to business ratepayers . |
| 7 | Installing a monitoring system in a 135,000 square foot building for 50 to 70 employees would cost $200 to $250 per person . |
| 8 | Chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forcasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely . |
| 9 | Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 10 | For each new account opened , NatWest will donate £6 to WWF and a further 0.2% of the spending on each card , thus providing ongoing funds . |
| 11 | The machines will cost $5m to $30m and the company says that it has already opened talks with some makers of massively parallel computers — observers suggest that Intel Corp and Thinking Machines Corp may be high on the list — according to the New York Times , several major US laboratories have experimented with Cray machines ( Cray-2s presumably ) linked to Thinking Machines kit . |
| 12 | A new landing stage needed in five years will cost £10m and a new ferry boat will cost £8m to £10m the projected life of the existing three boats is five years . |
| 13 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 14 | Bread baits on leger tackle will produce chub to 4lb at Clitheroe . |
| 15 | Guiraudios estimated that the number of Minitel terminals installed will reach 8m to 9m within the next four to five years . |
| 16 | Business rate ‘ will add 1pc to prices ’ . |
| 17 | Romania 's telecommunications development will require $7,000m to $8,000m in investments , according to a senior Ministry of Communications official quoted by Reuter , which notes that that is despite the fact that it is seeking only a modest 25% phone penetration rate by the year 2005 ; Siemens AG and Alcatel NV had offered credits of more than $85m for switching equipment manufactured in Romania and the country aims to install 500,000 new phone lines , 3,125 miles of fibre optic cable , setting up a private television channel and obtaining between 5,000 and 10,000 mobile phone subscribers over the next three years . |
| 18 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 19 | Government compounds all these problems when it sets down working parameters which fail to reflect the value the country gets from a system that is run efficiently , can shift people to destinations with exemplary speed and safety — as Europe consistently demonstrates . |
| 20 | It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate . |
| 21 | The company claims it can trim 10% to 15% off the time needed to resolve a customer call or problem . |
| 22 | You can give the back up team though , you can get people to hand out leaflets and that sort of thing |