Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [coord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tate & Lyle 's 1989 profits rose by 67 per cent to £200 million and earnings per share by nearly a third to 31.6p . |
| 2 | Turnover rose to £2.3 billion from £2.09 billion but earnings per share slipped to 3.5p from 3.9p . |
| 3 | Burtons were the biggest with a card portfolio of £580 million and profits in 1989 of £40 million . |
| 4 | Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor the Federal Reserve Bank of New York were prepared to assist , and on Feb. 17 the company , which declared assets in excess of $3,600 million and liabilities in excess of $3,000 million , made 5,000 employees redundant . |
| 5 | The gunmen had been demanding $6 million and changes in the Nicaraguan government . |
| 6 | Just at the moment , indeed , the chief beneficiaries of the EC 's bounty are the two largest borrowers in Eastern Europe , Poland and Hungary , with gross debts of $41 billion and $17 billion and populations of 37 million and 10.5 million respectively . |
| 7 | WOLSELEY , the West Midlands-based maker and supplier of bathroom furniture , drove sales up 30 per cent to £1,145 million and profits by 41 per cent to £47.6 million before tax in the six months to 31 January , and is now knocking on the door of the FT-SE 100-share Index , writes Clifford German . |