Example sentences of "[prep] [art] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | ADVERTISING and public relations group , Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell , yesterday saw its shares rise 9p to 422p on the announcement of a 16 per cent rise in profits before tax to £7.7m for the half year to end June . |
| 2 | Overall the society produced a comparatively strong 6.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £237.7m for the half year . |
| 3 | Page 30 Cluff glitters : Rising gold production pushed Cluff Resources ' pre-tax profits for the half year to 30 June up ninefold to £790,000 and strengthened the possibility that the group could pay a maiden dividend this year . |
| 4 | RISING gold production pushed Cluff Resources ' pre-tax profits for the half year to 30 June up ninefold to £790,000 and strengthened the possibility that the mining and oil group could pay a maiden dividend this year . |
| 5 | Whitbread 's pre-tax profits for the half year to August rose to £128.5million against £110.6million a year earlier . |
| 6 | Total expenses for the half year were £9.22m , up from £5.84m in the previous year . |
| 7 | The journey by train from Cambridge to Lincoln was tedious , involving several changes , and on arrival I was met by the usual RAF truck for the half hour 's run into Binbrook village and from there up the steep hill to the RAF Station on its plateau above the low lying plains . |
| 8 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 9 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 10 | For the half year to September , Merrydown reported profits down 19% to £760,000 reflecting strong competition . |
| 11 | Supermarket group Asda delivered a Christmas bonus in the shape of much improved profits for the half year to November . |
| 12 | While profits jumped to £2.6m in the annual results announced in March , interims in August posted £1.1m for the half year to the end of June . |
| 13 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |
| 14 | A statement of total recognised gains and losses , as required by FRS 3 , shows that the profit for the half year of £32.6m is boosted by currency translation differences on foreign currency net investments of £3.2m to produce total recognised gains and losses for the period of £35.8m . |
| 15 | Pre-tax profits for the half year rose by 123% to £6.296m ( v £2.814m ) . |
| 16 | Pre-tax profits for the half year to August are flat , only Pounds 500,000 ahead at £143m , and the UK slump has slammed the lid on margins . |
| 17 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
| 18 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 19 | UK underwriting profit of $3.5m for the half year ( 1992 : $104.8m loss ) following a $7.6m profit in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) . |
| 20 | A pre-tax profit for the half year to 30th June 1993 of $126.2m is announced today ( August 10 ) by the Scottish-based insurance group General Accident . |
| 21 | A profit of $7.6m in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) produced an overall profit for the half year of $3.5m , which compares with a deficit in the same period in 1992 of $104.8m . |
| 22 | Following losses in the second quarter down from $40.4m to $35.4m , the underwriting deficit at the half year in sterling terms was just over 9% lower at $74.1m ( 1992 : $81.6m loss ) , representing an overall improvement in the US operating ratio of almost one and three quarter points for the half year . |
| 23 | Currency movements had only a limited impact on the results for the half year . |
| 24 | The Division increased profits by 34 per cent from £28.7m to £38.6m , thanks to the inclusion of for the half year from June to December . |
| 25 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 26 | I 'll deliver when you for the half an hour when you come back . |
| 27 | Item nine , there 's a report for the half year ending on page forty-one , Tony ? |
| 28 | And the report for the half year will go to the council as you 've heard . |
| 29 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 30 | Maj Gen F. Adam then wrote : ‘ … as the soldiers during the half year wear the white waistcoats and white duck trousers the red jackets might be saved once in three years . ’ |