Example sentences of "be [adv] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognise that alcohol , cannabis , cocaine , LSD , heroin , Methadone , minor tranquillisers , sleeping tablets and many other mood-altering substances are all cross.addictive to sufferers from addictive disease and that all these drugs feed the disease regardless of whether they are legal , illegal or medicinally prescribed . |
| 2 | North Atlantic prawns are down £1.69 to £4.29 , and breaded scampi is £1.99 for 400g , down £1 . |
| 3 | SCOTTISH salmon steaks are down £1 to £3.99 for 3lb at Asda . |
| 4 | And you 're their children , you 're not people to them . |
| 5 | Earnings per share fell from 24.4p to 17½p but dividends are up 0.2p to 10.2p with a final of 6.2p payable June 10 . |
| 6 | Customs themselves predict that the introductory costs of meeting the single market requirements will be about £100m to British companies . |
| 7 | It will more probably be about 13% to 14% . |
| 8 | While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus . |
| 9 | Severn Trent Water , for example , supplies a free meter , and d-i-y costs are around £30 to £70 . |
| 10 | Net earnings per share were down 50% to $0.04 in the quarter , and amounted to $0.34 in the nine months . |
| 11 | The company said fourth quarter orders were up 20% to a record $4,420m and highlighted excellent order growth for printers and mass-storage products . |
| 12 | Revenues from this were up 77% to £37.2m , while pre-tax profits grew 92% to £7.8 . |
| 13 | Although overall revenues here were up 11% to £172.3m , after adjustment for exchange rates , they remained virtually unchanged . |
| 14 | Pre-tax profits were up 54% to £8m , further helped by the interest charge halved at £2.2m . |
| 15 | Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules . |
| 16 | But their offers were around £400m to £450m , while Littlewoods clearly expected the price of more than £500m . |
| 17 | For the first nine months of the year , taxable profits at the group whose brands range from Persil to Flora , were ahead 10pc to £1,459m from £1,331m . |
| 18 | For the first nine months of the year taxable profits at the group , whose brands range from Persil to Flora , were ahead 10% to £1,459m from £1,331m . |
| 19 | For the first nine months of the year taxable profits at the group , whose brands range from Persil to Flora , were ahead 10% to £1,459m from £1,331m . |
| 20 | Aprlow , Buckinghamshire-based SynOptics Communications UK Ltd has cut the price of its LattisNet family of FDDI intelligent hubs : the list price of the Model 2912A Workgroup Hub has been reduced 36% to £9,950 and the FDDI Fibre Optic Host module is down 27% to £5,535 ; the FDDI Network Management Module now costs £9,950 , a 33% reduction . |
| 21 | There 's more £10,000 to be won each week in the Daily Mirror — and a chance to win even more prizes in in our sister papers , the Sunday Mirror and The People . |
| 22 | The Samara 1300SL 3 door is up £154 to £1549 and the Niva 4wd now costs £7049 . |
| 23 | The French figure is up 13% to 1,751 . |
| 24 | The 2.4 litre diesel Landcruiser and Corollas are up one per cent , while the Starlet , ( the GL is the only model available ) is up £260 to £7860 . |
| 25 | The compiler is reportedly 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler . |
| 26 | If your direction of approach is over 60° to the outbound track turn the longer way round , with adjustment for wind . |
| 27 | In the six months to December turnover was down £3m to £38m with pre-tax profits £1.4m lower at £3.7m . |
| 28 | Operating profit was down 12% to $8.1m . |
| 29 | Thomson Travel 's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down £10.7million to £53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales . |
| 30 | Thomson Travel 's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down £10.7million to £53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales . |