Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [conj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since , because of the right hon. Gentleman 's policies , the building societies stand to lose £1 billion because of mortgage repossessions and since local authorities are having to spend £500 million on bed-and-breakfast and temporary accommodation , does not the Prime Minister think that the rescue mortgage scheme that we have promoted would be the effective way to ensure not only the relief of misery for scores of thousands of families , but that at least he did the honourable thing by his victims ? |
| 2 | Although exports continued to grow in 1990 , up 3.9 per cent at $280,000 million , imports increased by 12.3 per cent to $216,000 million because of increases in oil prices and in demand for imported consumer goods , and overseas production also increased . |
| 3 | The transactions include the sale of a package of assets to Deminex UK for £106 million , the sale of LASMO 's interests in T-block to Murphy Oil for $100 million , in the Balmoral and Maureen fields to Pentex UK for $30 million and in blocks 29/2a and 22/27a to enterprise Oil for £15.2 million . |
| 4 | Damage is defined by s. 4 as including loss of life and personal injury . |
| 5 | The budget for grants has been increased by £10 million and for loans by £30 million , increasing the total amount from £228 million to £268 million . |
| 6 | The announcement follows the county council being sued for £2.2 million because of delays in building the bypass . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the UK 's provisional trade deficit in 1990 was put at £17,000 million as against £24,000 million in 1989 and the current-account deficit at £12,800 million compared with £19,900 million ( with deficits for 1991 forecast at £12,000 million and £6,000 million respectively ) . |
| 8 | The only division to show a fall-off in profits has been the foods ingredients where profits fell from £10.8 million to £9.1 million because of difficulties in the bread market and the temporary impact of the closure of the Gainsborough plant . |
| 9 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 10 | Three ice islands recently broken out from the Ronne-Filchner ice shelf , in the southeast corner of the Weddell Sea , in area totalled 11.5 thousand km 2 and in thickness some 500 m ( Ferrigno and Gould , 1987 ) ; a single one almost 160km long with an area of over 6200km 2 , released from the Ross Ice Shelf in 1987 , was estimated to contain enough water to last the State of California over 600 years ( Polar Record , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | The most frequently quoted cases on " certainty of duration " are Lace v Chantler ( 1944 ) KB 368 and Re Midland Railway Company 's Agreement [ 1971 ] Ch 725 , as discussed in the following judgment . |
| 12 | They pay under contract $5 million indexed , so it is around $6 million now in practice , and that goes to the trust . |
| 13 | A raid on the Knightsbridge Safety Deposit Centre , London , in July 1987 netted more than £30 million and in November 1983 gold bullion worth £26 million was taken in the Brink's-Mat robbery at Heathrow . |