Example sentences of "to [n mass] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housebuilding profits rose from £1.6m to £3m although the company warned that the division 's returns would fall this year . |
| 2 | Hectic trading in which 3.1 million shares — worth £8million — changed hands was followed by a retreat to 238p when the Barclays vehemently denied that they held any shares in Williams . |
| 3 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 4 | There is only 2.6mV across R13 ( ) which gives 0.104V at pin-14 which should be 10V varying to 0V as the pot is rotated . |
| 5 | The fines are up to £1,000 and the provision arises as a result of the introduction of police cameras on roads which provide evidence of offences such as speeding or jumping traffic lights where the police are in possession of the vehicle number but not the name of the driver . |
| 6 | The average borrower with a £30,000 25 year loan will see monthly repayments rise from £278 a month to £298 if the mortgage rate goes to 14.75 per cent as expected . |
| 7 | Half-time figures are expected to show a 4% rise to £123m and a dividend increase to 6.9p . |
| 8 | The machines will cost $5m to $30m and the company says that it has already opened talks with some makers of massively parallel computers — observers suggest that Intel Corp and Thinking Machines Corp may be high on the list — according to the New York Times , several major US laboratories have experimented with Cray machines ( Cray-2s presumably ) linked to Thinking Machines kit . |
| 9 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 10 | Resiting the aquarium to a warm living room will cut this cost by anything up to 50% because the heater will only operate briefly and it is that which is the main user of power . |
| 11 | The agreement provided for the instant and simultaneous withdrawal of Croatian and JNA forces from battle zones , followed by the immediate withdrawal of the JNA to barracks and the demobilization of the National Guard . |
| 12 | One in five of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed believed that it costs less than £4000 per person , one in three estimated costs in the range of £4000 to £6000 and a further one in three thought it costs over £6000 per employee . |
| 13 | Meanwhile he returned to headquarters and the disagreeable task of informing Davout of the outcome . |
| 14 | This was the main message behind a worse than expected slump in interim pre-tax profits from £30.9m to £16.2m and the likelihood of a full year pre-tax loss , after incurring exceptional costs estimated at a cool £50m , to £55m . |
| 15 | AT Sainsbury 's , English matured cheddar is reduced from £2.25 to £1.99 a lb , a dozen eggs from £1.20 to 99p , a large pot of French set yoghurt from 93p to 75p , 500g of Sunflower margarine from 63p to 49p and a raspberry trifle from 42p to 36p . |
| 16 | The trade deficit with countries outside the EC grew marginally to £3.4bn while the gap with the EC narrowed to £1.1bn from £1.12bn . |
| 17 | The trade deficit with countries outside the EC grew marginally to £3.4bn while the gap with the EC narrowed to £1.1bn from £1.12bn . |
| 18 | Unofficial payments made by Swindon included signing-on fees of up to £20,000 and a goalkeeper 's £50 bonus for keeping a clean sheet . |
| 19 | But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase . |
| 20 | Offered to the museum for £800 by Hans Calmann , who subsequently lowered the price to £550 as the Committee ‘ felt a little uncertain about the Bust — or rather , I should say whether we should pay up ’ because a bust of the same period ‘ more certainly by Foggini ’ had been purchased by the V&A for £80 a few years before . |
| 21 | Pre-tax profits , however , fell from £285,000 to £56,000 as the company saw no repeat of the previous year 's big investment gain . |
| 22 | The total dividend jumps from 6p to 7.5p and the shares climbed 10p to 309p. — PA |
| 23 | Earnings per share fell from 3.5p to 2.6p but a 1.15p final dividend , payable on May 29 , keeps the total at 2.15p . |
| 24 | Following a year when toll increases from 60p to £1 and the recession slashed use of both tunnels by a million vehicles , business has begun to boom . |
| 25 | From April 1 a single hackney carriage licence will go up from £150 to £220 and a private hire will go up from £150 to £200 . |
| 26 | The fare for most of those years until 1939 was 6d ( 2½p ) , although it was increased to 9d when the tour was extended to Clifton Drive in 1932 . |
| 27 | Midway profits roared from £130m to £160m and the shares jumped 14p to 401p . |
| 28 | The remains of Ju 87R-4 6234 was estimated at £28–£32,000 , bidding started a £10,000 slumped to £8,000 before the item was withdrawn . |
| 29 | Next year , starting on Monday , the personal allowance rises to £3,445 but the married one is unchanged . |
| 30 | The relationship with HP ( which HP has cemented with an 8% equity stake ) , will contribute around 5% to Sequoia 's figures this year , expected to rise quickly to 20% when the PA fault-tolerant boxes come on stream . |