Example sentences of "[n mass] in [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US schools market was more competitive , he added , citing Harcourt Brace as a particularly energetic contender in the field ; but marketing costs were down , so that operating margins were kept high — at 14% in dollar terms . |
| 2 | USL 's November investment of $1m in Chorus Systemes , an investment that was subsequently increased , gave it a 7% position . |
| 3 | She was ordered to pay £15 in library fines , £31.90 compensation and £25 costs . |
| 4 | From 1846 they could sue those who owed them small sums under £20 in county courts , created for that purpose in that year . |
| 5 | A Yard statement said the five were being questioned in connection with the alleged dishonest handling of £16m of the £26m in gold bars stolen in November 1983 from the Brink's-Mat bullion warehouse at Heathrow airport . |
| 6 | John Wriglesworth , housing finance analyst at UBS Phillips & Drew , is currently forecasting a further drop of up to 10% in house prices next year . |
| 7 | At least one member of the committee has no objection to the committee 's papers being publicly available and believes that most data in licence applications could , with little loss to anyone , be made publicly available . |
| 8 | That these , and other materials , are taken as data in research projects is determined not only , or even mainly , by the subject matter of the research , but also by the theoretical presuppositions informing the study . |
| 9 | In a tactical retreat which largely quelled back-bench dissent , the President of the Board of Trade announced a two-year breathing space for the collieries at a cost of £500million in government subsidies . |
| 10 | BA has already paid out £610,000 in libel damages and £1 million costs , but Virgin wants the new settlement to cover damage inflicted in the three years of the ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 11 | BA already have paid out £610,000 in libel damages and £1 million costs , but Virgin wants a settlement to cover damage inflicted in the three years of the ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 12 | The idea of closing a mint-new , nearly finished base , for which $138m in completion funds have already been appropriated , looks daft . |
| 13 | Birmingham is well served by public transport , while its frequently denigrated ring road system allows traffic to flow at a remarkably fast pace ( 17.5mph in rush hours compared to central London 's 9 or 10mph ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Every time a cheque bounces it costs me £3 in bank charges . |
| 15 | The cughtagh was once admired as a handsome and benevolent giant who distributed gifts to the needy folk in hill villages . |
| 16 | Cut-Off Channel patchy , although roach nearing 2 lb in pleasure nets to 14 lb at Hilgay Bridge . |
| 17 | Control Data Corp expects to record charges of about $400m against its second quarter , about $130m attributable to Control Data Systems — $115m in restructuring charges and $15m in inventory write-downs as part of the transition from the proprietary Cyber mainframes to integration of open systems and applications . |
| 18 | Northern Fuels of Northgate House in the town was shown to owe £10,045 in rent arrears to its office landlord the Equitable Life Assurance Society . |
| 19 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 20 | Ousley claims CDC has some $130m in cash reserves and says it is now in the market for acquisitions in the channels and application areas . |
| 21 | Consequently , there was some shock but no great surprise when on 11 March it was announced that Taurus — after more than a decade of planning and more than £400m in development costs — was to be scrapped . |
| 22 | In 1989 the central government 's salary bill rose by 20% in dollar terms on the previous year . |
| 23 | The company is offering the board with 32Mb of memory at $10,000 in sample quantities ; it 's out now . |
| 24 | The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at £1.99 in department stores and toy shops . |
| 25 | Over the last seven years to the end of 1991 , some of the emerging markets have realised quite startling returns : Turkey 3,124% in dollar terms , Chile 2,831% and Mexico 1,978% . |
| 26 | She also owed about £700 in vet bills , but to save money she looked after their ears , eyes and claws herself . |
| 27 | At stage II Chlamydia trachomatis was detected in rectal biopsies of two homosexual men ( one had fever and weight loss , the other had abdominal pain ) , and Staphylococcus aureus in stool specimens of one non-homosexual man with epigastric pain and diarrhoea . |
| 28 | Even after visits made in the extra two hours are excluded there has still been an increase of nearly 39% in night visits from 1989 to 1992 , and the number of night visits has more than doubled in the 10 years since 1982 . |
| 29 | Israel , whose new ambassador in Washington had complained to the press on February 14th that America was giving Israel the ‘ runaround ’ on housing aid for Soviet immigrants ( the administration wanted to be sure that $400m in loan guarantees , now agreed , would not be used to settle immigrants in the West Bank ) . |
| 30 | The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June . |