Example sentences of "to [noun] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zetex increased its pre-tax profits to £2.1m this time from £1.1m in 1991 , while sales were up to £15.9m from £12.1m mainly due to doubled revenues from surface mount products . |
| 2 | Obviously , given the nature of addiction and the despair that it can produce , especially after several ‘ bites at the cherry ’ , interviewees ‘ needed ’ to believe that it was ‘ going to work this time ’ . |
| 3 | and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round |
| 4 | so why come when we went to town that time you could hardly hit the board |
| 5 | Comment was dominated by the critic Mark Steyn who kicked opera in the teeth and said he 'd take Frank Loesser in preference to Puccini any time . |
| 6 | One of these possibilities made itself known to J. some time that spring . |
| 7 | However , it is an awful lot better than having to go out to DOS each time , so I still recommend it . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , even if the bad debt provision is ignored , profits were still slightly down , to £961,000 this time from £1m last . |
| 9 | But thanks to its urgent need for ‘ hard ’ ( ie. capitalist ) currency , even Albania was forced to open its borders to tourism some time ago . |
| 10 | Sales here were £95.8m compared with £55.9m in 1992 , while operating profit grew to £9m this time from £5m last . |
| 11 | She would mention it tactfully to Mervyn some time . |
| 12 | Infodata Systems Inc has reported fourth quarter net losses of $741,000 up from losses of $192,000 last time , after $41,000 tax charges last time , on turnover down 23.1% at $2.1m ; net losses for the year to December 31 stood at $2.8m against profits of $38,000 last time , after $1.2m charges related to write-offs this time and $9,000 tax credits last time , on turnover that fell by 24.4% to $9m . |
| 13 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 14 | It was getting towards ten o'clock , and they had switched to beer some time ago , to keep their brains clear . |
| 15 | The idea is to move the venue to Stockton this time . |
| 16 | Sales at data communications equipment manufacturer Datacom grew to £2.9m this time from £2.7m last , and it has finally returned to profit after a troubled 1990 and 1991 . |
| 17 | The third division is aerospace , where operating profits fell from £10.5m in 1992 to £7.2m this time . |
| 18 | She must have gone to bed some time ago , else Jessie would n't have been able to sneak out . |
| 19 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 20 | No , I mean we have to tops this time of year , we ai n't got any in this year . |
| 21 | I might go to Shepperton some time |
| 22 | Anwar suggested he come back to till-work another time . |
| 23 | Net cash fell slightly to £2.2m this time from £2.3m last . |
| 24 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the seventh report of the Public Accounts Committee on the privatisation of Harland and Wolff was not available to Members in the House until late yesterday evening and that it had been made available to others some time previously ? |
| 25 | We wo n't go to Greece this time … ‘ |
| 26 | Get it to Tass some time this morning . ’ |
| 27 | Brokers Peter Joseph of Smith New Court and Paul Heath of UBS Phillips & Drew both expect profits to rise to £125m this time . |
| 28 | I spoke to Michael some time ago , he 's getting better , and I look forward to him resuming his duties . |
| 29 | Exports increased to 69% this time from 64% of total sales last , but Curtis said that it did n't benefit much from the movements in exchange rates . |
| 30 | ‘ We must have them to dinner some time , ’ says Felicity . |