Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 2 | Houston-based Compaq says its sales rose by 10% during the first three months of this year . |
| 3 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 4 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 5 | Spending of convertible currencies on imported cars had reached $200,000,000 in the first 11 months of 1989 and had caused a considerable drain on currency reserves . |
| 6 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 7 | The Board have upped the fines in the Nat West Trophy and the B&H Cup from the previously meaningless level of £100 per over not bowled by curfew time to an escalating scale ranging from £220 in the first two rounds to £330 in the quarter-finals , £660 in the semi-finals and … wait for it , £1320 per unbowled over in the final . |
| 8 | AST is third in US market share among portable computer makers , Edwards said , and overall unit growth was up about 65% in the first nine months of the current fiscal . |
| 9 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 10 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 11 | The most important of these restricted speed to 20 mph for the first 6 months of working in order to permit the road bed to consolidate satisfactorily . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Parker , who announced his resignation last week , unveiled pre-tax profits of £2.3m for the first six months of 1993 . |
| 14 | Amdahl Corp , Sunnyvale has launched a consulting service and data storage feature to facilitate the migration of customers to Escon Architecture : the company accompanies the new service with a new Serial Channel Feature for next quarter for use with its 6100 Storage Processor , which attaches to parallel channel adaptors on the 6100 and enable it to support serial Escon channel connections ; a 6100 with the feature will support up to 32 Escon serial channels or a mixture of serial and parallel channels ; native serial channels cost $62,560 for the first four and $32,280 for each additional pair ; the Serial Channel Feature start at $21,000 . |
| 15 | The proportion receiving aspirin within the first 24 h may be substantially lower . |
| 16 | The volume of factored turnover rose 10% to £7.52bn in the first six months after an increase of just 2.5% in the whole of 1991 , according to the Association of British Factors and Discounters ( ABFD ) , which represents 11 of the largest factoring companies . |
| 17 | The FT property-company index soared by 32% in the first five months of the year , while the FT-All Share gained just 3% . |
| 18 | Erm and banks incidentally , your protection is seventy five percent of the first twenty thousand , er which is where that B C C I figure came from , do you remember all that thing about fifteen thousand is your return ? |
| 19 | Eventually they ran so far that mines were sited as much as 55m/60yds behind the first German line ; the longest , at Kruisstraat , ran for some 658m/720yds . |
| 20 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 21 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 22 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 23 | Bankruptcies , including voluntary and er company liquidations , up by seventy five percent in the first six months of this year . |
| 24 | Property repossessions in the Nord Northern region up by forty seven percent in the first first six months . |
| 25 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 26 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 27 | NatWest Bancorp lost $140m in the first nine months of 1990 , mainly because of dud property loans . |
| 28 | After a short tussle a 5lb barbel was heading towards the landing net and I must admit I had visions of winning the match — 6 ½lb in the first twenty minutes is n't a bad start on any water . |
| 29 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 30 | The fry are extremely tiny , too small to take even Artemia nauplii for the first 5–6 days . |