Example sentences of "year [unc] [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest beneficiary will be the Festival , even if the proposal to cut its grant from last year 's £723,320 to £708,853 is accepted . |
| 2 | The final dividend , payable on July 1 , was slashed from last year 's 1.5p to 0.9p . |
| 3 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 4 | Barclays deepened the gloom with first-half profits collapsing from last year 's £378million to £51million . |
| 5 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |