Example sentences of "affecting [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short-term debt rating of NEC and its NEC Industries Netherlands BV , was cut to Prime-2 from Prime-1 , affecting about $1,300m of debt . |
| 2 | Philips Electronics NV has had the ratings on its long-term senior debt affirmed at Baa-1 and its short-term debt at Prime-2 by Moody 's Investors Service Inc , affecting about $1,550m in debt . |
| 3 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 4 | IBM Corp 's position is not seen by Standard & Poor 's Corp as likely to deteriorate any further any time soon : the ratings agency affirmed IBM and its units ' double-A-minus senior debt and A-1-plus commercial paper ratings , affecting about $19,000m in debt . |
| 5 | The agency also cut Tandy Corp 's subordinated debt and preferred stock to triple-B-plus from A-minus and Tandy Employee Share Ownership Plan 's senior notes to A-minus from single-A , affecting about $1,650m of debt . |
| 6 | Bell Atlantic Corp 's Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co of West Virginia has had a fillip from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which raised its senior unsecured debt rating to double-A-plus from double-A , affecting about $265m of debt , the move being made in the expectation that the company 's network modernisation and supportive regulation will help it to improve an already strong debt service capacity . |
| 7 | There are , however , less frequent types of Down 's , affecting around 4% of cases , where the recurrence rate is very high , around one in 10 . |