Example sentences of "[noun] of [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 32 | Haynes ' general publishing made a loss of £250,000 during the six months , compared with £1.2m for the whole of last year . |
| 33 | First half profit before tax at Midland Bank was £89m , compared with a loss of £71m in the same period last year . |
| 34 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
| 35 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd warns that it will likely make an unconsolidated or parent company current loss of $335m for the year to March 31 ; it had previously seen a loss of $215m and reported an $11m profit last year ; it expects a group current loss of $344m for the year . |
| 36 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 37 | The restructuring charges that Digital Equipment Corp is taking with its year-end figures are so enormous that they swamp everything else , but even before them , business was lousy with a fourth-quarter operating loss of $188.1m before the restructuring charge of $1,500m . |
| 38 | Proteus International , specialists in computer aided molecular modelling and drug design , announced a loss of £1.27m for the six months ended 30 September 1991 , compared with losses of £520000 in the five months to 30 September 1990 . |
| 39 | Receipts were down from £1,406 to £863 and a net loss of £160 on the year was returned . |
| 40 | But Mr Wooley claims that company incurred a trading loss of £127,000 for the year ending March 31 , 1989 . |
| 41 | BRISTOL CITY announced a loss of £742,000 for the last financial year at their annual general meeting at Ashton Gate last night . |
| 42 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |
| 43 | Q3 profit of $0.6 compared with a loss of $21.5m in the same period last time and produced a deficit down sharply from $$53.4m to $23.1m . |
| 44 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |
| 45 | It was not simply that London Films had registered a loss of £330,000 for the fiscal year 1936 . |
| 46 | The loss of people in the country areas is called rural depopulation . |
| 47 | Data for Greater London 's outflows to the rest of Britain , for instance , reveal the even more important role of the owner-occupied sector in 1981 compared to 1971 and also show that in 1981 there was virtually no net migration loss of people in the lower-paid occupations in both manual and non-manual groups ( table 8.5 ) . |
| 48 | The more that a loss of sales to the second group is compensated by a grant paid by the first , or the more the revenues for the provision of a service to individuals come from grants , the less likely is the bureau to be concerned for consumer interests and , hence , efficiency . |
| 49 | NEC Corp warns that it expects to plunge to a consolidated loss of $364m for the fiscal year to the end of this month , as slumps in the domestic chip and computer markets turn out even worse than feared . |
| 50 | This compares with the 1987 General Election result of 43pc for the Conservatives , 32pc for Labour , and 23pc for Liberal/SDP Alliance candidates . |
| 51 | ‘ The year 1992 symbolises the continued brutalising and marginalising of people throughout the world , ’ affirmed our Central Committee after its meeting in Quito , Ecuador , last June . |
| 52 | ‘ The year 1992 symbolises the continued brutalising and marginalising of people throughout the world , ’ affirmed our Central Committee after its meeting in Quito , Ecuador , last June . |
| 53 | For example , 50 users working simultaneously with , say , 20 different blocks of multimedia data each of 100 megabytes implies 100 gigabytes of data in the network ! |
| 54 | Dominating the trade , which saw 12 lots take 5,000gn or more , was the Dumfries-based breeder Jim Goldie , who had four of the top five lots , including the top bid of 14,000gn for the intermediate and overall champion bull , the 17-month-old Epatant son Goldie 's Glenfiddich . |
| 55 | The Swiss experiment used an original concentration of 50mM of the sodium salt ; when equilibrium had been reached 18mM of ‘ fresh ’ octanoic acid salt had been produced . |
| 56 | Don-E 's Island release ‘ Peace In The World ’ was disqualified from the charts after the hi-tech security system used by chart compilers Gallup picked up an unusually high concentration of sales in the south London area . |
| 57 | The use of e-mail , rationalisation of collection points , concentration of staff in the Inverleith Row premises , and reduction in the frequency of collections are likely to lead to a requirement for fewer staff to be deployed on Messenger duties . |
| 58 | Is the Prime Minister aware that the Home Office is withdrawing section 11 funding from all the colleges in the London borough of Ealing and that that adversely affects the Pathway further education centre in my constituency , where we have the largest concentration of people from the new Commonwealth ? |
| 59 | A starter regimen was used , with infusion of 60% of the calculated total caloric requirements on the first day ; this was progressively increased to 100% by the third day . |
| 60 | I bought some wild Angels ( P. scalare ) in 1988 with ragged and shortened fins , either from the attentions of fish in the wild , or rough handling in transit . |