Example sentences of "[adv prt] [n mass] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 2 | Private machinery orders collapsed in December , down 28% from the previous month . |
| 3 | Every £1 in extra revenue brought in 93p at the bottom line , said the board , with the new 7 per cent Government levy on sales the only deduction . |
| 4 | For the second year running the Artemis Group recorded lower profits , down 35% on the previous year . |
| 5 | The number of job offerings was down 11% from the previous year , with studio teaching positions particularly hard hit . |
| 6 | In the context of declining overall membership ( a 29% drop in the twenty years to 1990 ) and a reduction in the number of ministers ( down 16% in the twenty years to 1990 ) this was an encouraging sign which the denomination would do well to learn from . |
| 7 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 8 | The boy , from a children 's home in east Belfast , was said to have taken over £1,200 in the two robberies at Ballyhackamore in the past week . |
| 9 | Business development manager Laszlo Szilvessy forecasts that the company will turn over $1.5m in the first quarter of 1993 , after a disappointing $740,000 in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 10 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 11 | They also raised over £800 for the Sick Children 's Hospital . |
| 12 | The exercise shaved off $4bn from the 1990 target , but it raised the 1989 deficit by an equal amount . |
| 13 | MORE evidence of an upturn in the housing market came yesterday with home builders reporting more than 16,400 new starts in April up 17pc on the same month last year . |
| 14 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 15 | In the past financial year companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) raised a staggering ¥25 trillion through various forms of equity financing — up 65% over the previous year . |
| 16 | Follow up data for the 18 patients who were alive when the 1988 report was assembled have been obtained from the most recent inpatient assessment at Harefield Hospital ( 1991–2 ) , where all but one patient are reviewed in depth each year or more often if problems arise . |
| 17 | The number of students enrolling for one or more modules in 1987/88 was just over 154,000 — up 46% on the previous year . |
| 18 | With the graphics visualisation market apparently booming at present , PV says it expects the company to report an increase in profits this year of $19.3m , up $2.5m from the previous year 's $16.8m . |
| 19 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 20 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 21 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
| 22 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |
| 23 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 24 | Disregarding China 's quaint practice of counting disbursed government borrowings as revenue , the true deficit reached 48 billion yuan last year , up 35% on the previous year . |
| 25 | The provisional clean cattle price for the Monday-Thursday period was calculated at 143.16p per kg lw , up 0.45p on the previous week . |
| 26 | A source within Hewlett-Packard UK claimed that its first quarter 700 Series workstation figures showed revenues up 120% over the same period last year . |
| 27 | Toyota 's top-of-the-range Landcruiser VX , now with antilock brakes and side impact bars as standard , costs £29,565 , up £1300 on the old model . |
| 28 | In 1953–54 nearly 40% of all male students were classified as manual workers ; men as a whole made up 45% of the total number of students . |
| 29 | It envisages sucking up 45% of the multi-user Intel market in the first 24 months of NT 's life . |
| 30 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |