Example sentences of "dipped [n mass] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aberdeen Petroleum , courted as a merger partner by Bellwether , dipped 1p to 14p after news that the proposed tie-up was off . |
| 2 | Owners Abroad dipped 1p to 87p ; Airtours added 1p to 244p . |
| 3 | Amstrad , a major producer of satellite dishes , dipped 1p to 32p on competition fears . |
| 4 | Major M&S supplier Northern Foods gave up 4p to 273p , AB Foods dipped 1p to 505p , and Cadbury Schweppes fell 5p to 448p . |
| 5 | London Electricity dipped 1p to 421p after half-time profits up from £14.5m to £17.3m . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shares in Maxtor Corp slid after the disk drive company shocked the market with news of a fourth quarter loss ( see page five ) , and the price dipped $1.25 to $6.375 on Friday ; the company blamed ‘ severe price competition , ’ which hit gross margins ; it says the negative pressures of the fourth quarter will continue into the first quarter of fiscal 1994 , but predicted that plans to put new products on the market ahead of the competition ‘ is the key to winning new OEM customers and minimising the effects of industry price-cutting . ’ |
| 8 | Glaxo lost 4p to 632p , Zeneca dipped 2p to 759p , SmithKline Beecham went a penny easier to 457p although Wellcome escaped by firming a penny to 756p . |
| 9 | News of a 4.7pc rise in air traffic figures failed to set BAA flying and it dipped 2p to 816p . |
| 10 | Glaxo shed 11p to 655p on fears of cuts in US health spending and SmithKline Beecham ‘ A ’ dipped 11p to 421p , but National Westminster Bank gained 14 to 459p , both ahead of today 's figures . |
| 11 | Shipping giant P&O dipped 9p to £3.40 , despite a £28 million surge in half-year profits to £101 million . |
| 12 | Cable and Wireless dipped 9p to 482p , the 22 per cent rise in interim profits . |
| 13 | Cable and Wireless dipped 9p to 482p , the 22 per cent rise in interim profits . |
| 14 | Cable & Wireless , whose Mercury subsidiary yesterday heralded a phone war with the introduction of a new service for London , dipped 3p to 848p over fears that the new project might in fact turn out to be a drain on profits . |
| 15 | Glaxo shed 2p to 618p , Zeneca went 3p better to 756p and SmithKline Beecham dipped 3p to 455p . |
| 16 | Kalamazoo dipped 3p to 27p after going into the red . |
| 17 | Cable & Wireless dipped 3p to 866p after its Mercury operation launched a new mobile phone service . |
| 18 | Motor dealer Lex Service dipped 3p to 335p on news that it has sold most of its shares in US electronics distributor Arrow for 146.6m dollars ( £94.4m ) . |
| 19 | Pearson , the media group which owns a 17.5pc stake in BSkyB , dipped 3p to 514p despite the satellite broadcaster reporting its first full-year of operating profits . |
| 20 | Losses per share were cut from 137.01p to 83.1p , but there is again no dividend and the shares dipped 0.5p to 7p. — PA |
| 21 | QMH 's shares dipped 1.5p to 52.5p , while Bass 's lost 13p to 590p. — PA |
| 22 | BP lost 5p to 299p , Shell dipped 4p to 659p and Enterprise Oil shed 9p to 478p . |
| 23 | High street retailer Argos dipped 7p to 277p after a Panmure downgrading . |
| 24 | The shares , floated at 240p , dipped 7p to 486p . |
| 25 | Liberty the group which owns the flagship store in Regent Street dipped 5p to 575p after its interim results came out , but the shares recovered quickly to stand at its opening 580p price . |
| 26 | Oftel 's director general , Bill Wigglesworth , said he wanted to see ‘ an end to the uncertainty ’ about prices , and BT 's shares later dipped 5p to 398p. — PA |
| 27 | Engineering group Wheway dipped 5p to 7p after a profits warning . |
| 28 | The shares dipped 6p to 335p . |