Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [n mass] [num] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROFITS at the Bradford and Bingley building society , Britain 's seventh largest , have slumped by £14 million because of the housing crisis . |
| 2 | The announcement follows the county council being sued for £2.2 million because of delays in building the bypass . |
| 3 | Prior to this period , the Bank had been funding actively and , during the preceding six months , had made issues of stock by all three methods amounting to £8.5 billion and including both conventional stocks and index-linked stocks . |
| 4 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 5 | In 1968–69 it amounted to £15 million and in 1969–70 £31 million . |
| 6 | Damage is defined by s. 4 as including loss of life and personal injury . |
| 7 | The budget for grants has been increased by £10 million and for loans by £30 million , increasing the total amount from £228 million to £268 million . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the UK 's provisional trade deficit in 1990 was put at £17,000 million as against £24,000 million in 1989 and the current-account deficit at £12,800 million compared with £19,900 million ( with deficits for 1991 forecast at £12,000 million and £6,000 million respectively ) . |