Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 2 | EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s . |
| 3 | The overwhelming bulk of MPs to whom the Vice-Chairman and I have spoken support us . |
| 4 | They reflect a miraculous turnround from a loss of £9.3m to a profit of £5.6m for the year to August 1992 . |
| 5 | The more that a loss of sales to the second group is compensated by a grant paid by the first , or the more the revenues for the provision of a service to individuals come from grants , the less likely is the bureau to be concerned for consumer interests and , hence , efficiency . |
| 6 | A consultant had advised them that they could earn £10.5m more from their current activities , and that there was a potential additional revenue of £25m to be made from the campus by expanding into calendars , hot dogs and more . |
| 7 | Using 1920 as the base year for education and 1958 as the corresponding year for economic development , he found that ‘ sustained growth generally starts when primary enrolment is in the neighbourhood of 30% to 50% of the school-aged population . ’ |
| 8 | This loading process is very fast ( a few seconds for the same 70,000 words ) because there is effectively only one piece of data to be read , instead of 70,000 . |
| 9 | A group of teachers in training watch a recording of a class as a piece of data to be analysed . |
| 10 | Of the 100 companies surveyed 10 per cent had a turnover of £50M to £99M ; 51 per cent , £100M to £249M ; and 27 per cent had a turnover of £250M plus . |
| 11 | Then turn towards the wind , to offset the RC needle on the opposite side of 0° to the wind , by the amount of your estimated drift . |
| 12 | A cut of 1% to 7% could be on the cards in tomorrow 's autumn statement and this pushed the FT-SE 100 Index ahead by over 19 points to 2714.6 . |
| 13 | Other recommendations included Prosperity Financial Services ( 0800 521546 ) , which was offering 8.5% on an investment of £15,000 to £24,999 for one year and between 8.35% and 8.5% on £5,000 to £14,999 and over £15,000 respectively for three years . |
| 14 | Other companies on Baronworth 's list of best buys and keen on guaranteed income bonds include Acuma ( 0784 430003 ) , which was offering a range from 7.4% for an investment of £1,000 to £1,999 ( over one year ) to 8.00% for £20,000 ( no commission payable ) . |
| 15 | By 1934 there were about 2,500,000 families , or 21.3 per cent of the total , who might be regarded as middle class , based upon the criterion of £4 to £10 per week . |
| 16 | Tom King claimed that the proposal could generate two to three thousand jobs , especially in the construction industry , as well as having other beneficial effects in expanding the local economy : ‘ The injection of £400 to £500 million of private capital would be a major demonstration of confidence in the province and the largest private investment ever made ( sic ) ’ . |
| 17 | Benson could not truly estimate the value of the ore in his sett but suggested a figure of £8 to £10 per ton . |
| 18 | The plainer truth is that this is so obvious , as obvious as Leeds Town Hall , that Mr Smith would be elected by any Labour Party forum , by a ballotted union membership , a ballotted constituency membership , or that secret vote of MPs to which Labour will do well to return . |
| 19 | He was chosen as Clerk of Works to Charles II for his Hertfordshire home , Audley End , and also created an early ‘ theme park ’ at Hyde Park , known as ‘ Winstanley 's Waterworks ’ , a fine display of fountains and waterspouts . |
| 20 | , William ( 1825–1904 ) , engineer and inventor , was born in Limehouse , London , 15 October 1823 , the second son and third in the family of three sons and two daughters of John Samuel Adams , clerk of works to the East India Dock Company , and his wife Jean Walker . |
| 21 | Now , a Denver bankruptcy court has approved a settlement of $128.1m to Miniscribe 's creditors , shareholders and lenders . |
| 22 | Thus by the beginning of 1797 , discounting contributed to a situation in which the adding of £200,000,000 to the debt secured an effective loan of only £108,000,000 . |
| 23 | This is to ensure a fair split of staff to each representative due to the small number of staff in some departments . |
| 24 | One example of such a model is that of Vidale and Wolfe who related the rate of change of sales to advertising by the equation : unc where S = sales at time t ds/dt = rate of change of sales at time A = advertising expenditure at time r = sales response factor ( sales generated per unit of advertising expenditure ) M = saturation level of sales ( sales maximum ) |
| 25 | The co-operation and rapid response of staff to the assessment procedure has been greatly appreciated , and will enable us to proceed with the implementation of the Directive with all of the necessary facts to hand . |
| 26 | The functionalist approaches see crime as a response of people to their social situation . |
| 27 | All things considered the response of people to the proposed scheme can hardly be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ . |
| 28 | In one case of mine , eventually settled for £300,000 , the master ordered an interim payment of £125,000 to be paid in two instalments , the first of £75,000 to enable the plaintiff to buy a suitable bungalow and install a nurse , so that she could come out of hospital , and the second of £50,000 to ensure that nursing could continue to trial . |
| 29 | Additional cash payment of £2,500 to your estate in the event of your death as the result of an accident . |
| 30 | In addition , the Treasury has offered an ex gratia payment of £580 to Ms Anouschka Zagorski , studying law at King 's College , London , to reimburse the cost of her fees for the last academic year . |