Example sentences of "in the year to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wehmiller 's pre-tax profit growth , 55 per cent to £8.1m in the year to July 31 , was almost all from acquisitions . |
| 2 | Page 27 TIP leaps 40 per cent : Pre-tax profits at TIP Europe , the trailer rental company , rose 40 per cent from £9m to £12.6m in the year to July as the fleet grew from 10,000 to 18,000 vehicles . |
| 3 | Many gardening businesses have hit rocky ground but Waterers expects to increase turnover from £4.8m to £6m in the year to July . |
| 4 | The value of the deal is estimated at £12m to £16m ; the company , which employs about 100 people and was founded in 1984 , made its fortune with the Lemmings series of games , and saw sales rise nearly 40% to £6.8m in the year to July 1992 , and is forecasting £1.5m pro fit on £12m sales this fiscal year . |
| 5 | In the year to July 1990 , Littlewoods paid out some £70 million in prize money ( 15% up on 1989 ) and according to finance director Barry Dale , brought in £17 million profit . |
| 6 | The sample of 800,000 credit searches showed a 14.7pc rise in credit inquiries in the year to July for new car loans ; finance houses reported a 9.2pc increase with a 7.4pc rise in the retail sector and inquiries for home loans were up 4.3pc . |
| 7 | In the year to July 1992 , Glasgow generated £38 million of income through research grants and business contracts , including 25 new patent applications and six new licensing agreements . |
| 8 | The ‘ headline rate ’ of inflation is tumbling nicely : it fell from 8.2% in the year to March to 6.4% in the year to April . |
| 9 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 10 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 11 | The 12-month increase in German producer prices slowed to 1.8% in the year to March . |
| 12 | The growth in Japan 's broad money supply slowed to 4.9% in the year to March ; its narrow-money growth quickened to 1.7% . |
| 13 | Heron — which builds houses , owns petrol stations and imports Suzuki vehicles as well as selling other cars including Rolls-Royce — made a small trading loss in the year to March , compared with a £60m profit in 1990–91 . |
| 14 | They fear the power of the example he set by completing a world record 87 marathons , in 13 different nations in the year to March 15 . |
| 15 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 16 | Retson , Virginia-based Network Imaging Corp has agreed to acquire Optix SA for shares worth $39m : Optix is a document imaging and optical storage technology company headquartered in Paris ; in the year to March 31 1992 , it had earnings of $2.5m on turnover of some $40m . |
| 17 | Shipments by the Japanese personal computer industry fell again in the year to March 31 , extending the then unprecedented decline of the previous year : total personal computer and peripheral shipments fell 10% in value to $9,540m , the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association said ; the previous fiscal , sales fell 7% ; domestic ships fell 13% to $7,065m , but exports were less hit , falling 1% to $2,448m ; exports of notebook computers grew particularly well . |
| 18 | The placing raised about £5m in new money for the company ; in the year to March 1992 , it lost £107,000 on sales of £746,000 . |
| 19 | Equally straitened is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , which reported plunging profits that were still better than forecast : it is cutting its bonus for executives by 20% in the year to March 31 1994 , Reuter reports from Tokyo , adding that it is also considering reducing bonuses for senior managers as well as stopping increases of wages of those above section manager ; the company sees intense competition . |
| 20 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 21 | In the year to March 1991 , Osaka accounted for 8.3% of Japan 's GDP , down from 8.8% a decade earlier ; Tokyo 's share rose from 16.6% to 18.5% during that period . |
| 22 | It fears that the ¥200 billion school project will amount to little more than a bail-out of struggling Japanese computer makers — such as NEC , which made its first ever consolidated loss , of ¥44 billion , in the year to March . |
| 23 | Thanks to recession , total domestic sales of personal computers fell by 8% in the year to March . |
| 24 | Swiss producer prices rose by 0.8% in the year to March . |
| 25 | Growth in Japan 's narrow money slowed to 0.6% in the year to March ; its broad money contracted by 0.3% . |
| 26 | You also state : ‘ In the year to March 1992 , Japanese firms won 31% of the contracts financed by their country 's aid . ’ |
| 27 | Thus , 38% of Asahi Bank 's net new loans in the year to March were to the property sector . |
| 28 | Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers , for example , is licensed for stockbroking , trading and underwriting : most of its profits ( 200m won in the year to March ) came from buying bonds . |
| 29 | Australia 's current-account deficit widened to $10.9 billion in the year to March , its biggest 12-month deficit since October 1991 . |
| 30 | Keyence , a smallish company from Osaka with sales in the year to March of ¥30.5 billion ( $174m ) , helps to prove them wrong . |