Example sentences of "[n mass] to [noun] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | AAF Industries was a major casualty , plummeting 49p to 79p after issuing its second profits warning in two months . |
| 2 | Profits to end-September soared 56% to £1.027bn after a rip-roaring performance by both the tobacco arm and US insurer , Farmers . |
| 3 | Half-time profits actually rose slightly from £30.1m to Pounds 30.8m , despite the interest income on Dunhill 's cash pile falling by £2.1m to £8.3m after lower interest rates and acquisition costs . |
| 4 | BPB fell 17p to 217p after issuing a £64 million 15-year Euroconvertible yielding a touch under 7.5 per cent , and confirming a cut in the dividend from 11.25p to 7.5p for the current year . |
| 5 | Saga shares jumped 66p to 293p after news of the approach . |
| 6 | Its shares fell 8p to 101p after US aerospace group United Technologies issued a profit warning due to poor sales at Pratt & Whitney , a direct competitor to RR . |
| 7 | Food giant Hillsdown Holdings added 8p to 130p after a maintained dividend forecast and boardroom shake-up . |
| 8 | Rank Organisation , the leisure group , advanced 8p to 782p after the success of its scrip dividend take-up . |
| 9 | The shares added 2p to 270p after a 10% dividend rise to 3.3p . |
| 10 | Dixons , which had a gloomy message last week , fell 2p to 140p after touching 138p . |
| 11 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 12 | The shares firmed 2p to 304p after the figures yesterday . |
| 13 | Powergen 's shares brightened 2p to 273p after a 0.3p interim dividend increase to 3.35p and is on course for a full-year profits hike to £395m ( £359m ) . |
| 14 | Commercial Union pushed 7p ahead to 600p , Sun Alliance added 3p to 368p , Royal Insurance went a penny better to 309p while Guardian Royal gained 2p to 215p. after reporting interim profits in line with the City 's forecasts . |
| 15 | Unigate 's shares rose 15p to 357p after the news yesterday . |
| 16 | Kalamazoo dipped 3p to 27p after going into the red . |
| 17 | The shares added 3p to 171p after a 47% hike in the half-time divi to 0.5p — especially good news for the Cohen family , who between them hold more than 60% of the shares . |
| 18 | Earlier this year it was forced to restate its 1987 profits from £1.2m to £410,000 after an investigation by Ernst & Young discovered errors in the valuations of contracts at Sharp 's main business in Bradford . |
| 19 | Profits for 1991 fell from £191m to £21m after £39m of exceptional provisions . |
| 20 | POLICE flagged down a bus to take 35 people to hospital after a gas attack on a pub last night . |
| 21 | And the house-builder , Trencherwood , lost 0.5p to 7p after cutting heavy losses but again failing to pay a dividend to shareholders . |
| 22 | The interest charge however rose by £1m to £1.6m after a £4m increase in debt to a £10½m . |
| 23 | Merchant bank Warburg also lost ground , down 45p to 479p after a 44% slump in half-year profits to £51m . |
| 24 | Earnings per share climbed from 15.6p to 17.1p and the total dividend is raised from 8.1p to 8.7p after a final of 6p . |
| 25 | Regular filter changes are essential because efficiency can drop from 80% to 20% after a few weeks , if you forget to clean your unit . |
| 26 | East Midlands Electricity added 1p to 408p after generating a 23% profits rise to £30.3m . |
| 27 | Aberdeen Petroleum , courted as a merger partner by Bellwether , dipped 1p to 14p after news that the proposed tie-up was off . |
| 28 | London Electricity dipped 1p to 421p after half-time profits up from £14.5m to £17.3m . |
| 29 | Shares in Bond Street antiques dealer Mallett surged 19p to 73p after an unnamed bid approach . |
| 30 | But leather group Hartstone climbed 4p to 200p after a healthy 20% interim profits leap . |