Example sentences of "of [n mass] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate this , let us consider three hypothetical firms A , B , and C. The assets that comprise firm A have a 10% chance of producing a cash inflow of £1,000 at the end of a given time period and a 90% chance of producing cash flows of zero . |
| 2 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 3 | It made a profit of $247m at the operating level , but did only $500m of business with the outside world , lagging far behind the leaders in the OEM disk business . |
| 4 | The warrants will have an exercise price of £1 at the end of their nine-year life . |
| 5 | A hundred and ninety four jobs are to go at Smiths Industries : the company says cuts in production of aircraft at the Boeing factories in America are to blame . |
| 6 | Then as we got older , about 16 or 17 , we used to give a couple of bob at the end of the week to keep all our shoes . |
| 7 | This clock runs the sequence of l.e.d.s at a very rapid rate for a fraction of a second and then halts the process very quickly to leave just one of the indicators illuminated . |
| 8 | That such discrepancies arise is due to compilation of data at a local scale and its subsequent incautious use to derive estimates at a regional scale . |
| 9 | A further 25 Mb of data at a 1 : 3 000 000 scale will also be stored . |
| 10 | The real difficulty lies in the fact that CD-ROM can only process one type of data at a time . |
| 11 | The research was conducted through the collection of data at the conclusion of an investigation or once a referral had been dealt with and closed via other action . |
| 12 | Other centrally sponsored events , including a Film Premier and the Battle of Britain Ball , raised substantial sums for the Appeal and the Association 's links with the Rugby League led directly to a donation to the Appeal by the League of £10,000 at the Rugby League 1990 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 13 | Although British cattle remained large for a while , they gradually reduced to an average height of 125cm at the withers by 2600 BC and by 300 BC , in the Iron Age , they were considerably smaller , averaging only 105cm . |
| 14 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 15 | He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras . |
| 16 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom last year failed to make enough operating profit to offset losses by its sister units , according to yesterday 's edition of Focus magazine : the weekly reckons that Telekom 's 1992 profit totalled about $4,065m and after transferring $3,125m to the government , it was left with only $935m to offset losses of $1,685m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst postal service and $185m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank savings bank . |
| 17 | Based on an earlier estimate of £70,000 for computerised support of approximately 20,000 files in another department ( without networking costs ) , a similar system for the Highways and Planning departments , allowing for some economy of scale , could have cost in excess of £150,000 at the prices that were then current . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 19 | For good measure , up popped Mr Peter Stibbard , Director of Statistics at the Department of Employment . |
| 20 | He is Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and sometime Professor of Statistics at the LSE . |
| 21 | In the absence of any turnaround in the fourth quarter , ICI can only just afford to pay the maintained 1992 dividend of 55.0p at a cost of about £400 million from ‘ clean ’ earnings per share of 48.8p . |
| 22 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 23 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 24 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 25 | In 1968 the newly formed ‘ Keighley & Worth Valley Light Railway Limited , ’ a limited liability company with ten ‘ worker directors ’ agreed with British Rail to purchase the five-mile-long Keighley to Oxenhope branch line in West Yorkshire for the sum of £45,000 at a fixed annual repayment over 25 years . |
| 26 | Even for severely ill patients a good long term outlook can be expected for most of those undergoing transplantation ; the overall survival of 70% at a mean of 69 months for those discharged from hospital after such an operation compares favourably with the long term results of cardiac transplantation worldwide . |
| 27 | Epitot , conferring with other officers of staff at a trestle table nearby , turned and noticed him . |
| 28 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown during a late-night party . |
| 29 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown at a late-night party . |
| 30 | SLIMMING down of staff at a North Wales nuclear power station to fit in with modern technology and reduced power generation has meant 100 jobs being lost in the Trawsfynydd area over the past 12 months . |