Example sentences of "in [art] six months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of pre-tax profits that rose £175,000 to £19.25m in the six months to July , some £6.7m could be described as exceptional if not extraordinary . |
| 2 | Outlook page 25 Profits up : Pre-tax profits at Tootal rose £175,000 to £19.25m in the six months to July ahead of next week 's MMC report on Coats Viyella 's £395m bid . |
| 3 | Interim pre-tax profits rose by an estimated 10 per cent to £17m in the six months to 1 October . |
| 4 | Pre-tax profits in the six months to end July soared 43 per cent to £19.4m , with the help of £1.3m of property sales . |
| 5 | In the six months to 30 June profit before tax was £3.7m , up from £3.2m , compared with analysts ' forecasts of about £4.5m . |
| 6 | With no volume gains and falling prices , like-for-like sales in shoes fell back by 1.5 per cent in the six months to 31 July . |
| 7 | This page and Outlook , page 27 Sears slows : Pre-tax profits at Sears , the retailing group , slumped by 10 per cent to £91.7m in the six months to 31 July as high street spending waned . |
| 8 | Outlook , page 27 Profits up : Pre-tax profits at Harrisons and Crosfield advanced 8 per cent to £65.2m , and there was a similar rise in earnings to 7p in the six months to 30 June . |
| 9 | PRE-TAX profits at Sears , the Selfridges , Dolcis and Olympus retailing group , slumped by 10 per cent from £102.3m to £91.7m in the six months to 31 July as high street spending waned . |
| 10 | ETAM , the fashion retailer , saw its profits before property income rise by 10.3 per cent to £6.3m in the six months to 12 August . |
| 11 | The Halifax estate agency revealed a £14.5m loss in the six months to the end of July . |
| 12 | In the six months ended 30 June pre-tax profits fell from £7m to just £5.1m , and earnings per share dropped 36 per cent to 6p . |
| 13 | AITKEN HUME International , the financial services group chaired by Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken , more than doubled pre-tax profits to £1.449m in the six months to 30 September . |
| 14 | In the six months to 25 April , the company recorded a loss of I£509,000 ( £461,000 ) , a turnaround from a pre-tax profit of I£362,000 ( £336,000 ) in the previous year . |
| 15 | Because of the Midland Bright Drawn Steel sale , after the Steel Stampings disposal to Parkland last year , turnover was reduced to £33.7million , from £636.2million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 16 | KENNING Motor Group , a subsidiary of Ron Brierley 's quoted UK motor dealership , Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn , achieved a slim increase in pre-tax profit to £1.6million ( against £1.59million last year ) in the six months to the end of June , although turnover fell from £96.5million in 1988 to £88.7million . |
| 17 | WHITBREAD Investment Company , the offshoot of the eponymous brewing empire , increased its income 9 per cent to just over £7million in the six months to the end of September . |
| 18 | AQUASCUTUM held sales only a hairsbreadth short of the corresponding figure at £23.6million in the six months to July 31 , but pre-tax profit slid to £616,000 , from £809,000 . |
| 19 | The rewards are just beginning to come through with Mercury 's contribution to C&W trading profit leaping from £4million to £14million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 20 | Marston 's pre-tax profits rose 17.5 per cent to £9million in the six months to September . |
| 21 | Christian Salvesen , the food process and distribution , generator hire and brick making group , raised pre-tax profits by almost 21 per cent to £32.6million in the six months to September . |
| 22 | Great Universal Stores , the biggest of the mail order firms , raised pre-tax profit by £8million to £171million in the six months to September , although catalogue sales and retail earnings slumped by £8million . |
| 23 | Property profits , £4.8million in the six months against £4.9 million last year , reflect the group 's continued wish to weed out unwanted retail premises which are not on prime town centre sites .. |
| 24 | Great Universal Stores , the biggest of the mail order firms , raised pre-tax profit by £8million to £171million in the six months to September , although catalogue sales and retail earnings slumped by £8million . |
| 25 | Property profits , £4.8million in the six months against £4.9 million last year , reflect the group 's continued wish to weed out unwanted retail premises which are not on prime town centre sites .. |
| 26 | HICKING PENTECOST 's profit fell back to £153,000 from £415,000 as pressures on the textile industry intensified in the six months to September 30 . |
| 27 | Interest was that amount lower at £3.6million , offsetting most of the £2million mining and industrial hydraulics contribution in the six months to September last year . |
| 28 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Britain 's current-account deficit of £20 billion ( $31 billion , or 3.6% of GDP ) in 1989 fell to an annual rate of only £4.1 billion in the six months to February , and the odd monthly surplus may soon appear . |
| 30 | In the six months following Stalingrad , Germany 's fortunes worsened still further as a result of the reversals in the east , the allied landing in Sicily and Calabria , and the fall of the Mussolini regime in Italy . |