Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks have thus had an increase of £1 billion deposits ( new money ) on their liabilities side , and £1 billion of government bonds on their assets side . |
| 2 | My local authority , sadly Labour-controlled , has been able to use £16 million of capital receipts in the past five years . |
| 3 | These include £1.2 billion of property surpluses plus £460m of surpluses on investment — reduced by £144m because of the fall in value of its Midland shares — plus a previously secret £1.1 billion . |
| 4 | Institutional investors made their biggest ever switch from short to long-term assets in the final quarter of 1991 , abandoning £3.8 billion of cash deposits for gilts and equities . |
| 5 | Now assume that the Bank of England repurchases £5 million of government bonds on the open market . |
| 6 | He said the Government was providing £10 million for truancy projects in 74 local education authorities . |
| 7 | During the period 1983-84 to 1989-90 , the scheme assisted 902 projects , disbursed £31.6 million of board funds at constant 1990 prices , and produced total tourism investment of £197.2 million at 1990 prices . |
| 8 | Pesticide use for all of Indonesia has dropped to about half what it was when the programme started , saving the government $120 million in insecticide subsidies to farmers . |
| 9 | The country 's budget of £4 million for bus services in 1993–4 is exceeded by its education services budget of £5.5 million used partly for local bus service contracts and partly for purchasing seats on commercially run buses . |
| 10 | This year , we plan to spend a record £120 million on exploration programmes in 13 countries and a further £180 million on developing new fields . |
| 11 | The plunge has wiped £1,000 billion off share values in barely three years . |
| 12 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 13 | The CSTR was the home of the UK Alvey Large-Scale Demonstrator Project in automatic recognition of continuous speech ( 1984–91 ) and since 1984 , CSTR has earned over £11 million in research contracts from national and international government and industry sources . |
| 14 | President Nixon had to agree to pay over $400 000 in tax arrears in 1974 , after the disclosure that he had failed to report capital gains on the sale of property . |
| 15 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 16 | In 1990 the EC spent about $49 billion in state subsidies to farmers . |
| 17 | We will safeguard the abatement negotiated by Mrs Thatcher which has so far brought some £12,000 million in budget rebates to Britain . |
| 18 | Since then , Mr Soros has committed $100 million to bolster the collapsing science community in the former Soviet Union , provided $50 million for relief efforts in Bosnia , and loaned Yugoslav Macedonia $25 million . |
| 19 | In addition , we pay out over £7,000 million in benefit payments on behalf of the Department of Social Security . |
| 20 | Customs sources claimed that the alleged ring laundered some £19 million in drug profits for Colombia 's Madellin Cartel , believed to be responsible for nearly eight per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US . |
| 21 | Altogether clubs raked in more than £133 million in gate receipts from domestic games during 199192 compared to the previous year 's £114m . |
| 22 | The US government has recently produced legislation providing up to $25 million in tax benefits for companies which produce the so called orphan drugs ( compounds that are uneconomical to produce ) . |
| 23 | Following the decision to license Steve Job 's NeXTStep 486 object oriented operating system on its line of Intel Corp 80486 systems ( CI No 2,148 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday bit the bullet and said NeXTStep version 3.1 will be available on its Precision Architecture RISC-based HP Apollo 9000 series 700 of Unix workstations from the middle of next year . |
| 24 | Following the decision to licence Steve Job 's NextStep 486 object oriented operating system on its line of Intel Corp 80486 systems , Hewlett-Packard Co last week bit the bullet and said NextStep version 3.2 will be available on its Precision Architecture RISC-based HP Apollo 9000 series 700 of Unix workstations from the middle of next year . |
| 25 | Investors have bought almost $1 billion of REIT shares in initial public offerings already this year ; the total for 1993 may exceed $1 billion . |
| 26 | The banks were demanding that Poland pay $250 million in interest arrears as a precondition to any agreement . |
| 27 | Pointing out that the changes are expected to raise £300 million for Government coffers in 1994 , Jonathan Peat , chief economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland , said : ‘ This must mean extra revenue is expected to be gained from North Sea development — and to that extent it must be bad news for the North Sea . ’ |
| 28 | VAUXHALL has won its biggest ever contract with the Ministry of Defence worth over £17 million at showroom prices for 1,947 diesel-engined Novas and Astras . |