Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] 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 | Council house rent arrears amounted to over £1m , though they are at long last being reduced . |
| 3 | It is not necessary to control for anything , since there are no other variables connected to both age and income and prior to one of them . |
| 4 | They are two of some 40,000 BCCI account holders in Britain with collective losses amounting to about £2 billion . |
| 5 | At this higher interest rate , total injections amount to only £10 million . |
| 6 | These savings amount to roughly £1 billion for every 1 per cent cut in the base rate . |
| 7 | An interim questionnaire was issued to students after 2–3 school visits to gauge initial reactions to the Scheme , with final questionnaires issued to both students and teachers on completion of the Scheme to evaluate the Scheme as a whole . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Screening for gastric cancer in Japan has increased the proportion of early gastrc cancers diagnosed to approximately 45% in the screened population . |
| 11 | Already the tenants here have seen their fuel bills reduced to about £7.00 per week for whole house heating and can now grow fruit instead of mushrooms and other varieties of fungus ! |
| 12 | In tests , some Luffa aegyptica fruits grew to over 3ft long in only 20 days . |
| 13 | From importing 10% of demand in 1978 the level of imports increased to almost 30% in 1983 . |
| 14 | Start-up costs came to around £10,000 — which came straight out of personal savings . |
| 15 | United States military costs are estimated at $60 billion so far , and UK military costs amount to so £90m , almost the same as the entire 1990/1 defence budget . |
| 16 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 17 | The acquisitions made by UK companies through the 1980s , particularly within the US , raised the total overseas exposure at the corporate earnings level to around 50% . |
| 18 | Also the union had to pay aggravated and exemplary damages amounting to over £125,000 . |
| 19 | Samantha Hoad was shown court documents with additional figures amounting to almost £200 when the bailiffs arrived . |
| 20 | The interim dividend stays at 0.5p , though earnings leapt to almost 10p . |
| 21 | The glossary that follows sets out to clarify the names given to both alloys and metal coatings . |
| 22 | Pumpkinseeds grow to around 7″ , so they require a fairly large tank — three feet minimum . |
| 23 | People who paid rates amounting to only £200 on a house now have to pay £1 , 200 in poll tax . |
| 24 | The move is a morale booster for Forte , two weeks before its results , which are expected to show a profits plunge to about £70 million . |
| 25 | The survey found we pay £42 for a basket of 22 everyday items compared to just £20.40 in Mexico . |
| 26 | Such a collapse would cause corporate profits to decline to just 3% of GNP ( see chart ) , a level not seen since 1974 . |
| 27 | BT was condemned for its high pressure sales techniques on the day its profits slipped to just £65 a second . |
| 28 | AS A result of privatisation , the gas , electricity , telephone and water price rises come to over £3 per week . |
| 29 | temperature of the products falls to below room temperature |
| 30 | The contractor claimed £350,000 for delays and disruption and the related delay costs to road users amounted to around £450,000 , the NAO estimated . |