Example sentences of "a [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , rather than realising a £17m loss , Tootal 's figures show a £3.4m profit , with most of the difference written off earlier through the balance sheet . |
| 2 | For rock sections , a 50m 9mm rope could be doubled to give 25m of climbing , with twice the strength/abrasion resistance . |
| 3 | Incidentally , a 50m abseil reaches the ground from the belay at the top of the big corner of The Bat . |
| 4 | As a doorchime , the transmitter is connected to a conventional bell-push , with the receiver unit simply positioned in any location within a 50m radius of the transmitter . |
| 5 | You can move the receiver from room to room , or even into the garden ( as long as it is within a 50m radius of the transmitter ) , or fit one or more receivers around the house . |
| 6 | The Lombard , Illinois-based Dauphin Technology Inc company developing the DTR-1 ‘ world 's smallest 80486 computer ’ ( CI No 2,085 ) , has signed IBM Corp to a $150m contract to make the handheld device at its Austin Industrial Business Center in Austin , Texas . |
| 7 | Tektronix Inc filed a shelf registration with the US Securities & Exchange Commission for up to $76m of debt securities , part of a $150m offering of which $74m has already been registered . |
| 8 | The deal will be funded by a $150m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development , earmarked for the Catching up with European Higher Education Project . |
| 9 | In the same timeframe the Application Server will get a $1,000 multi-user Windows Merge , a $3,280 Veritas Advanced File System and a $200 C2 Auditing package . |
| 10 | After months of negotiation , Lauda had wrested a $2-million-a-year contract from Ecclestone — no mean feat in itself . |
| 11 | It is a reasonable inference that a 7s. parcel formed but an insignificant fraction of the estates of a nobleman like Lord Zouche , whose goods alone totalled 500 marks . |
| 12 | The discussion is brought short by the sight of Deer Creek Falls , a 150ft cascade pouring out of the cliffs . |
| 13 | There may be others still under discussion — I have heard of a purchaser moving into his new house to find a circular on the doormat inviting him to support a protest against the erection of a 150ft BBC television mast within fifty yards of the house . |
| 14 | Lemmings Bungee Club , a commercial venture which organises charity jumps , will be setting up a 150ft crane at Kings nightclub , Copford , on May 16 ready for anyone daring enough to throw themselves off . |
| 15 | Ex-Royal Marine Russell Powell , 23 , is accused under a 19th Century law of making a 150ft drop from the cathedral 's Whispering Gallery into the nave . |
| 16 | Great , but it works just as well for BOSS radio systems , Nady radio systems or a 150ft lead . |
| 17 | But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 . |
| 18 | Against a depressed market trend , ECC , paying a 13.4p final , rose 3 to 517p , Ladbroke ( 6.23p final ) added 3 to 214p , MB-Caradon ( 53/4p final ) put on 2 to 263p , while Redland ( 16¾p final ) was up a heady 14 at 481p . |
| 19 | INDUSTRY Minister Peter Lilley said yesterday he is lobbying hard to bring part of a £500m contract to Darlington . |
| 20 | London securities houses had their worst year ever in 1990 , with 3,000 job cuts and losses of £353m ( $630m ) , compared with a £500m profit in 1989 . |
| 21 | But last Wednesday , BNFL unveiled the completed plant and said it would recoup its costs in ten years and make a £500m profit . |
| 22 | TELECOMS giant Cable & Wireless has announced a £500m deal with Canada 's BCE . |
| 23 | The report follows hot on the heels of the move by financier George Soros , the man who is said to have made £1 billion speculating on the collapse of sterling on Black Wednesday , who last month tied up a £500m investment with property giant British Land . |
| 24 | On a tour of Cleveland Structural Engineering 's Darlington fabrication shed he attempted to placate the workforce , concerned about losing out on a £500m job on Hong Kong 's new airport . |
| 25 | There had been little internal enthusiasm for this project and it was largely due to the personal sponsorship of a new technical director , Dr John Powell , that the company , which had 48 000 employees and a £500m turnover , decided to exploit Hounsfield 's work . |
| 26 | We both count for three seconds , maintaining the formation … one thousand and one , one thousand and two , one thousand and three … then he banks hard over left in a 4g turn . |
| 27 | ‘ What he did n't know was there was a 13ft drop on the other side . |
| 28 | British Gas Somerset District engineers had quite a challenge to install the new gas supply , as the castle is up a 60° gradient hill and then 300 metres of pipe had to ‘ scale ’ ramparts and battlements to the new meter . |
| 29 | The diagram shows the limiting size of a cube to be viewed through a 60° cone . |
| 30 | Cadbury Schweppes and Sainsbury would not consider calling in headhunters to search for jobs paying less than £35000 : Sainsbury once considered employing a search firm for a £25000 post as manager of a depot , but decided this would be a waste of money , and gave the assignment to one of Britain 's largest search/selection/advertising businesses , MSL . |