Example sentences of "a [n mass] loss " in BNC.
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| 1 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 2 | Page 29 Property victims : Halifax Building Society announced a £14.5m loss from its estate agency chain and Leeds Permanent closed 60 branches with 243 job losses . |
| 3 | THE property downturn claimed two more building society casualties yesterday , the Halifax announcing a £14.5m loss from its estate agency chain and the Leeds Permanent closing down 60 branches and sacking 243 people . |
| 4 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 5 | The car division of America 's Ford made a $176m net profit in the first quarter of 1993 , compared with a $16m loss in the same quarter last year . |
| 6 | The provisions pushed the bank to a $10m loss and caused a profound shock to ripple through the Midland 's executive offices in Poultry . |
| 7 | December 8th : The manager of the direct-labour organisation , which does the council 's building work , announces that it will not be making its projected profit , but a £3m loss . |
| 8 | Accounts recently published show the club made a £3m loss in the last financial year . |
| 9 | The extraordinary debits of £2.55m charged in the group p&l account , analysed in a note to the accounts , include a £57,000 surplus on disposal of assets of Churchill Safes & Security Products Ltd , a £1.098m loss on disposal of assets of Churchill Safes & Security Products Ltd and Tann Synchronome Ltd , and on a separate line £2.999m purchased goodwill in respect of businesses sold . |
| 10 | In spite of a £15m loss incurred after the IRA bombing in April , first half losses before tax fell from £26.3m to £18.1m at Commercial Union . |
| 11 | However , rather than realising a £17m loss , Tootal 's figures show a £3.4m profit , with most of the difference written off earlier through the balance sheet . |
| 12 | National Westminster Bancorp reported after-tax profits of $30m ( £17m ) in the first quarter , compared with a $191m loss during the same period last year . |
| 13 | The company turned round from a £896,000 loss to a £58,000 pre-tax profit , struck after exceptional charges of £1.19m against £23.58m last time . |
| 14 | This , plus the cost of carrying other unsold flats , helped turn profits of £6.4m into a £21.5m loss in the six months to end-September . |
| 15 | Copam Electronics Inc , describing itself as Taiwan 's second biggest personal computer maker , is seeking court protection from its creditors after making a $19.2m loss in 1992 on sales of about $100m , and saddling itself with $77m bank debt . |
| 16 | The Exmoor National Park had 23,900 hectares of moorland in 1947 which , by 1976 , had been reduced to 19,021 hectares ( a 20% loss ) , 26 mainly by conversion to Pasture . |
| 17 | Silicon Graphics Inc took one look at the ghastly quarterly figures from MIPS Computer Systems Inc — a $12.7m loss ( UX No 382 ) — and decided it had paid too much for MIPS : it will now pay 0.52 of a share for each MIPS , down from 0.61 of a share , the eventual price depending on what MIPS ’ share price is when the deal closes . |
| 18 | The effect , even at this early stage , has been impressive — a turnround from a £19m loss in 1991 to a £21.9m profit in 1992 . |
| 19 | The Magic Kingdom is finding the going tough and the resort ran up a £23m loss ( FF188m ) for the year . |
| 20 | Anglo crashed to a £22.65m loss from profits of £3m in the six months to end September . |
| 21 | Profits fell from £312,000 to a £191,000 loss in six months . |
| 22 | Sprint Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $23.6m , struck after a $12.3m loss from discontinued operations , against a profit last time of $106.3m , on turnover that rose 8.7% at $2,728m . |
| 23 | This suggests that a 20%percnt ; reduction in ferry costs through new manning arrangements and the use of larger ships would reduce the profitability of the Tunnel to zero in 1994 ; a reduction of 40% , which is within the bounds of possibility , would produce a £4bn loss . |
| 24 | Chips & Technologies Inc saw a third quarter net loss of $4.1m , down from a $10.3m loss last time , on turnover down 30.9% at $21.6m ; net loss for the nine months was $39.7m , down from a loss last time of $48.5m , on turnover that fell 29.3% at $76.3m . |
| 25 | This compared with a £428,000 loss in the corresponding period last year . |
| 26 | Insurance group Sun Alliance was clouded by a £466m loss on the back of its exposure to mortgage indemnity insurance . |
| 27 | ‘ Even bringing down the charges to £4 means the council will be incurring a £40,000 loss . |
| 28 | Turnover fell 29 p.c. to £464m and , at the pre-tax level , the group incurred a £42.8m loss , up from £6.2m in 1990 , struck after a £25m exceptional write-down in the value of a property joint-venture in Leicester . |
| 29 | Operating profits almost halved anyway but the provisions turned an £83m pre-tax profit into a £2.7m loss . |
| 30 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |