Example sentences of "compare [prep] [noun] million for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company made £135 million in the six months to September , compared with £62 million for the same period last year . |
| 2 | The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 . |
| 3 | The deficit for 1990 as a whole was $100,900 million compared with $109,390 million for the whole of 1989 . |
| 4 | Scott said £1.9 million had been spent advertising DWA , compared with £6.4 million for DLA . |
| 5 | The UK interests contributed £53.1 million of the £56 million turnover for the year , compared with £32 million for the previous nine-month trading period to 31 December 1991 . |
| 6 | In the ten months to last January , spending on civil legal aid had reached £20.5 million compared with £16.6 million for the whole of 1991-92 . |
| 7 | The dismal figures of a net loss of $7.7 million for the nine months ended September 1992 , compared to $5.4 million for the same period last year , and a net loss of $13.2 million for the third quarter with a loss per share of $0.25 ( compared to $0.22 per share last third quarter ) were almost obscured by the announcement that the company will be raising its buyer 's premium from 10% to 15% as from January 1993 . |
| 8 | The trade surplus was now expected to be less than US$10,000 million for the year compared to $16,000 million for 1989 ( US$1.00=129.826 cruzeiros as at Nov. 29 , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | Pre-tax profits are £1.1 million , compared to £2.2 million for the same period last year , a drop of 48.5% . |
| 10 | The profits compare with £25.4 million for 1991 , but analysts pointed out that the 1991 figure included a £4.9 million exceptional transfer resulting from a change in the bonus scales on the company 's industrial branch business . |