Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1983–4 , penalties on overspending authorities amounted to over £200 million — almost all of which fell on urban Labour councils . |
| 2 | So total general government income amounted to about £180,000 million . |
| 3 | Council house rent arrears amounted to over £1m , though they are at long last being reduced . |
| 4 | The loss of revenue amounted to about £1 million a week . |
| 5 | By the end of the reign total land revenue came to about £100,000 , a rise of nearly 25 per cent , compared with a price rise of about 75 per cent . |
| 6 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 7 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | I think the amount of money came to about £42,000 worth of fraud and deception . |
| 9 | Sales in the product 's first year of deliveries amounted to only $1m , a drop in the bucket for a firm that 's been through two rounds of venture capital totalling $7.5m provided by Aspen Partners , Menlo Ventures and Matrix . |
| 10 | Increasingly this is outside the UK altogether : international industrial investment undertaken by British companies amounted to over £10 billion per annum by the late 1980s . |
| 11 | Over the years the ladies have raised several thousands of pounds for the RNLI and this year the total collection in a two- hour session amounted to almost £400 . |
| 12 | In tests , some Luffa aegyptica fruits grew to over 3ft long in only 20 days . |
| 13 | Select committee chairman Gareth Wardell said the authority 's annual budget of £2.81m amounted to just 98p per head of the Welsh population . |
| 14 | In 1985 , as reported in The Times , the cost of simply storing the United Kingdom 's cereal surplus amounted to around £111 million . |
| 15 | Start-up costs came to around £10,000 — which came straight out of personal savings . |
| 16 | The Japanese surplus fell to below $50,000 million in the second half of 1989 from over $80,000 million a year earlier , and the West German surplus in the second half of 1989 was also slightly below its record level in the first half of the year . |
| 17 | Although the Portuguese chemical output amounted to only ECU 42000m the industry was active in intra-EC trade , exporting some 13 per cent of its production . |
| 18 | These obstacles have made it very difficult for British companies to launch takeovers on the continent , despite the fact that in 1988 the aggregate value of foreign takeovers in the UK amounted to around £35 billion , which was 73% by value of the EC total , followed by France with a mere 10% of the takeovers ; in 1990 over £30 billion worth of UK firms fell into foreign ownership , that is over four times the comparable figure in France , Germany or Spain . |
| 19 | As a result , the proportion of revenues originating from outside the UK rose to around 27% , with the Far East and US performing particularly well . |
| 20 | Thereafter prices evened out around the dollars 18 level ( the " minimum " reference price for OPEC oil confirmed in November 1989-see p. 37053 ) , but in December the world market was again temporarily affected ( this time by exceptionally cold weather in North America and by the US military operation in Panama-see pp. 37112-13 ) and in the latter part of that month the Brent crude price rose to over dollars 20 . |
| 21 | Vauxhall 's market share rose to almost 19% , compared with under 16% in October 1991 . |
| 22 | Our Euro Disney selection roared to nearly £17 at one stage and you could have made £3 a share profit then . |
| 23 | The trade deficit in the UK widened to over $30,000 million in 1989 . |
| 24 | The interim dividend stays at 0.5p , though earnings leapt to almost 10p . |
| 25 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 26 | When both the Observer and the Daily Express wrote flattering editorials on the new shop , sales soared to over £3,000 a week . |
| 27 | Many firms suffered badly in 1980 when as a result of a high interest rate policy ( plus North Sea oil 's effect on the balance of payments ) the exchange rate soared to over £1 = $2.30 ( from only £1 = $1.60 some three years earlier ) . |
| 28 | England 's most capped flanker spoke to Today rugby union writer TONY ROCHE on the classic confrontation : The irresistible force meeting the immovable object . |
| 29 | BT was condemned for its high pressure sales techniques on the day its profits slipped to just £65 a second . |
| 30 | Gross national product fell by 5.7 per cent , an estimated 40 per cent of the workforce was unemployed and average per capita income fell to below $300 a year . |