Example sentences of "[n mass] for the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 4 | Therefore , we considered all subjects as belonging to one group when presenting the data for the these parameters . |
| 5 | Icelanders have to fork out 57p for the same product . |
| 6 | The gentlemen of the town were supplementing the stipend , and the next Master , William Nicholson , gave the sum of £10 in his will of 1597 to pay an Usher to be an assistant , and another £10 for the same purpose came in 1605 under the will of Alexander Torkington . |
| 7 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 8 | Labour 's spend was around £750,000 for the same period , while the Liberal Democrats spent about £175,000 . |
| 9 | Atensin , also diazepam but produced by Berk , is priced at £5.50 for the same amount . |
| 10 | This is not , however , intended as a guide for the connoisseur , but rather as a plain man 's helpmate to getting the best possible fish for the least outlay . |
| 11 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 12 | UK underwriting profit of $3.5m for the half year ( 1992 : $104.8m loss ) following a $7.6m profit in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Overall the society produced a comparatively strong 6.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £237.7m for the half year . |
| 15 | ADVERTISING and public relations group , Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell , yesterday saw its shares rise 9p to 422p on the announcement of a 16 per cent rise in profits before tax to £7.7m for the half year to end June . |
| 16 | I mean if I retrain you know , there 's a thousand people for the same job , it 's just looking very bleak . |
| 17 | Wednesday are looking for £800,000 for the former Swindon player , who Chelsea value at closer to £500,000 . |
| 18 | And there is a further payment from Roger , on the 27 June , of £2 : 10s. : 0d. for the same purpose . |
| 19 | William Overton held the courts of Empingham for as little as 40d. , compared with 40s. for the same duty at Burley . |
| 20 | The present system , which is not more effective , costs £110 for the same result . |
| 21 | What better time then for the Community Action Trust , the organisation behind the Crimestoppers scheme , to put up a reward of £5,000 for the same information ? |
| 22 | While profits jumped to £2.6m in the annual results announced in March , interims in August posted £1.1m for the half year to the end of June . |