Example sentences of "down twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primary earnings under F R S Three including everything down twenty one percent , but taking out the non-operating items , that 's the erm fixed assets , er profit sales on the one hand and the old extraordinaries on the other , and you have I think a more meaningful guide to our performance a reduction in any nine percent . |
| 2 | So trading profits down twenty four percent and although the interest charge was down er , quite sharply , largely , of course , as a reduction in net depth through the Elserver sale , profits before tax ended up as you heard before , twenty three percent lower . |
| 3 | Trading profit less potential was only down twenty five million because , of course , a good slice of the reduction in trading profits came from er , associates , mainly Elserver which is rather niggly in distributions . |
| 4 | Amongst the major shares today , Abbey National up one at one nine nine , British Aerospace down twenty at five three four , British Airways down one at one five oh , British Gas down , down two at two one seven , British Steel were down two at one one six , B T down five at two five nine , Rolls Royce , they were down five at one seventy and T S B ends the day up , er that 's up two at one one eight . |
| 5 | Today 's share prices : Abbey National down two at two two eight , British Aerospace down twenty two at five three seven , British Airways down three at a hundred and forty one , British Gas went down four point five at two two seven point five , British Telecom down six point five at two hundred and eighty four , Goodhead Publishing Group stayed at sixty , Metalbox down fifty to one O O seven five , Morland Brewers unchanged at two hundred and seventy , Oxford Instruments went down four to two three three , Thames Water was down five at two two nine and the Trustee Savings Bank went down one to a hundred and thirty seven . |
| 6 | Early falls on Wall Street offered London no encouragement , and by the close the footsie one hundred was down twenty two point three at two O two eight . |
| 7 | And today 's major movers — Benjamin Priest up twenty two to one one one and Bass down twenty eight to nine nine five . |