Example sentences of "in the [noun] to december " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial production surged 5.7% in the year to December while the volume of retail sales rose by 4.9% . |
| 2 | In the year to December Japanese workers received a wage increase of 6.3% , equivalent to a real rise of 2.4% ; British workers ' pay rose by 9.8% , a real increase of only 0.5% . |
| 3 | Britain 's industrial output slowed in January , leaving it only 0.3% up on the year , compared with a 1.2% increase in the year to December . |
| 4 | Its broad money growth has slowed sharply , from 13.2% in the 12 months to May 1990 to 8.6% in the year to December . |
| 5 | Britain 's consumer-price inflation slowed to 9.3% in the year to December , helped by falling petrol prices . |
| 6 | Germany 's wholesale prices edged up 1.5% in the year to December . |
| 7 | In the year to December Japan 's broad-money growth slowed to 8.6% ; in the same period Britain 's narrow-money growth slowed to 2.7% . |
| 8 | Italy 's rose by 8.1% in the year to December . |
| 9 | Invesco saw pre-tax profit drop 23 p.c. to £14.5m in the year to December , after an exceptional item of £16.6m . |
| 10 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 11 | It lost £270,000 on sales of £6.7m in the year to December 1989 , and lost £935,000 on £5.7m sales the previous year . |
| 12 | United Kingdom seasonally adjusted unemployment rose by 703,700 in the year to December 1991 . |
| 13 | Pre-tax profits soared from £27.9 million to £46.3 million in the year to December , following a loss of £68.0 million in 1990 . |
| 14 | The previously-announced £1 billion cost of rationalising BAe 's heavily-loss-making regional aircraft division led to a £1.2 billion pre-tax loss at the aircraft and defence group in the year to December . |
| 15 | In the year to December , pre-tax profits edged ahead from £40.3 million to £42.7 million . |