Example sentences of "[n mass] to [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earnings per share climbed from 15.6p to 17.1p and the total dividend is raised from 8.1p to 8.7p after a final of 6p . |
| 2 | The Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 18 its readiness to send a squadron of F-16 jet fighter aircraft to Turkey if the UN voted for an air embargo on Iraq [ see below ] . |
| 3 | The same is not so true of 22mm to ¾in and 28mm to lin where the pipe size has changed slightly as well and you may need to use special types of adaptor fitting . |
| 4 | EURO Disney collapsed another 58p to 755p as the City gave further thought to last week 's poor results . |
| 5 | Shares of Clarke Foods'- the Lyons Maid ice cream firm- plunged from 64p to 21p after the company cancelled a divi increase . |
| 6 | Pre-tax profits , however , fell from £285,000 to £56,000 as the company saw no repeat of the previous year 's big investment gain . |
| 7 | Norweb is paying a higher interim dividend , up from 5.3p to 5.9p and the final should be just as healthy . |
| 8 | Profits jumped 20% to £391m and the forecast for the full year is a leap from £632m to around £735m to £740m . |
| 9 | On Friday its shares jumped 2p to 32p as the market got wind of some kind of deal , valuing the group at £130million . |
| 10 | Following a year when toll increases from 60p to £1 and the recession slashed use of both tunnels by a million vehicles , business has begun to boom . |
| 11 | Texas Instruments Inc cut suggested retail prices on its personal computers by $100 to $700 : the TravelMate WinSLC is cut 5% to $1,900 and the TM4000 Win models are up to $700 cheaper ; it also introduced a new Travelmate 4000 model , with an 80486 microprocessor , at $3,100 . |
| 12 | The level at which tax becomes payable has risen from £25,000 to £110,000 and the rates have been changed from an amount varying between 10 per cent and 75 per cent , to a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 13 | Profits before tax and asset disposals showed an increase of 26pc from £1.2m to £1.6m but the pre-tax figure dipped 34pc to £2.02m from £3.05m caused by a marked reduction in asset disposals . |
| 14 | Net assets per share grew from 169p to 212p and the dividend is being raised from 1.55p to 1.75p , with a 1p final payable on May 29 . |
| 15 | Inspector Mike Pennington , the Gloucestershire police spokesman , said , ‘ Thirty-three victims last year lost over £6,500 to pickpockets and the majority of thefts took place when bets were being placed , winnings collected or in the vicinity of public conveniences . ’ |
| 16 | This settlement should entail ‘ an early withdrawal of foreign troops from Kampuchea , the exercise of the fundamental right of the Kampuchean people to self-determination and the emergence of an independent and neutral Kampuchea which poses no threat to her neighbours ’ . |
| 17 | While I support fully the RSPCA campaign and their use of ‘ shock ’ tactics , I feel that the horrifying sight of a heap of dead dogs is no more likely to stir people to action than the sight of a pile of dead cows will turn us all into vegetarians . |
| 18 | Erm the ratio of clerical staff to management and the amount of time managers spend on central management activities . |
| 19 | The Ministry of Defence is decamping staff to Newcastle while the Department of Social Security is sending 350 jobs to Belfast . |
| 20 | Beer profits slumped from £54.2m to £51m but the leisure side , Center Parcs , kept up its momentum with maintained occupancy of 90% and profits nearly £2m up at £38.8m . |
| 21 | This was the main message behind a worse than expected slump in interim pre-tax profits from £30.9m to £16.2m and the likelihood of a full year pre-tax loss , after incurring exceptional costs estimated at a cool £50m , to £55m . |
| 22 | Over pit closures , the scandal of the Matrix Churchill prosecution for arms sales to Iraq and the payment of Norman Lamont 's legal fees , the Cabinet gives the impression of considering itself above the law . |
| 23 | Economic sanctions were agreed at an emergency EC meeting in Rome on Aug. 4 , which approved a statement condemning of Iraq , pledged to work for UN sanctions , and adopted with immediate effect an embargo on oil imports from Iraq and Kuwait , appropriate measures aimed at freezing Iraqi assets , an embargo on military sales to Iraq and the suspension of military , scientific and technical co-operation . |
| 24 | Grand Metropolitan , which is believed to be keen to sell its extensive brewing interests , came to life in late trading , jumping 21p to 599p as the story flowed that Sir James Goldsmith and friends were stake-building . |
| 25 | The UnixWare Personal Edition for desktop users is cut 50% to $250 and the UnixWare Application Server is cut 48% to $1,300 ; the software development kit is cut 40% to $600 . |
| 26 | Earnings per share moved up from 14.04p to 15.36p and the company is raising the final dividend from 4.34p to 4.57p , to boost the total by 5.3 per cent to 6.36p . |
| 27 | The divi is up from 4p to 7p and the shares , which peaked at 755p in 1989 , jumped 7p to 297p . |
| 28 | The machines will cost $5m to $30m and the company says that it has already opened talks with some makers of massively parallel computers — observers suggest that Intel Corp and Thinking Machines Corp may be high on the list — according to the New York Times , several major US laboratories have experimented with Cray machines ( Cray-2s presumably ) linked to Thinking Machines kit . |
| 29 | Midway profits roared from £130m to £160m and the shares jumped 14p to 401p . |
| 30 | The Apple USA division of Apple Computer Inc yesterday cut suggested retail prices in the US on the Apple Color Printer by 29% to $1,660 and the Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR , also 29% to $1,180 . |