Example sentences of "[n mass] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter . |
| 2 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 3 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
| 4 | The only way to discover what on earth this means is probably to fork out £60 for the ten-week course or £48 for the eight-week course . |
| 5 | US prices go from $2,000 for a 12 user licence to $12,000 for a 250 user copy . |
| 6 | In lighter tone the Mad Hatters Tea Party was a great success , raising £88.86 for the national RBLWS birthday scheme . |
| 7 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 8 | It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan — in total a yearly income of just £2,685 . |
| 9 | Wet moorland may support 1 sheep for every 3/4 hectares ; moorland converted to a rye grass sward can support 10 sheep per hectare . |
| 10 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 11 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 12 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 13 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 14 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 15 | M&J Ross and Son of Romesbeoch , Shawhead , Dumfries , received a 3,400gn bid for their Zora of Romesbeoch from J&JW Ions of Thorneyburn , Hexham and RT Lawson and Son , Airlies Farm , Wigtown , went to 2,800gns for the second prizewinner Zulu , the September l991 bull brought out by Ian Henderson of Langholm . |
| 16 | SCO claims 31% of multi-user accounting systems costing under £50,000 installed in the UK run on its flavour of Unix , whilst London-based market research firm , Ovum Ltd — which says accounting is by far the largest application software sector in the UK — forecasts an annual growth rate of around 23% for the Unix-based accounting software market to 1995 . |
| 17 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 18 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 19 | He also led Chrysler 's 1991 and 1993 stock offerings , which raised more than $2,000m for the troubled company . |
| 20 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 21 | The only way to discover what on earth this means is probably to fork out £60 for the ten-week course or £48 for the eight-week course . |
| 22 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 23 | In the store rings an entry of 400 bullocks continued to meet an excellent trade and sold to a top of £930 for Belgian Blue 464kg and to £920 for a Simmental 638kg . |
| 24 | For chunky knitting , a 90% Courtelle/10% Nylon Brushed Chunky has been introduced in five pale shades to retail at approximately £1.89 for a 100 gram ball . |
| 25 | Most simply give themselves up , and , in the case of those who have done no more than poach the odd buck for a little bushmeat , are often let off with a caution . |
| 26 | On the plush Chiltern line , travellers from Banbury will have to pay £2,452 for an annual season ticket to Marylebone . |
| 27 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 28 | He admitted that he thought electors were sick of what seemed like endless campaigning , but for the last two weeks his home has been the headquarters for a hectic campaign office . |
| 29 | Difficulties were thought to arise over reaching agreement on a headquarters for a merged society , which would have had combined assets of £350m . |
| 30 | Difficulties were thought to arise over reaching agreement on a headquarters for a merged society , which would have had 75,000 customers and combined assets of £350m . |