Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Profits at Unilever are forecast to rise from £575m to around £595m for the third quarter . |
2 | Prices start at £104.57 for the 63CPE model . |
3 | THE SECOND snooker tournament held by Walton and Hersham branch in February netted a record £1,458 for the RNLI , exactly double the amount raised in the first tournament in 1990 . |
4 | The event — which last year raised over £68000 for the benefit of young people who are disabled , unemployed on probation or from ethnic minorities — consisted of numerous tests , designed to challenge the lads ' teamwork , communication , leadership and ingenuity . |
5 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
6 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
7 | The only way to discover what on earth this means is probably to fork out £60 for the ten-week course or £48 for the eight-week course . |
8 | The City was alarmed at the hefty slide into the red and a heavily reduced dividend payout and knocked 19p off the share price to 173p . |
9 | Feare ( 1970a ) thought it to be at least 90% during the first winter . |
10 | CADBURY Schweppes is paying just over £3m for the Hacks and Victory V cough-sweet brands owned by Alma , the Scottish confectionery group which went into receivership in February and was subsequently closed down . |
11 | Fleming 's Level was expected to be 35 fathoms before intersecting the lode and was assessed at a likely £4 : 10s. per fathom with £23 10s. for the metals and sleepers . |
12 | Coventry decided that it would cost more to contest the claim than pay it ; so Clarkson will get £74 for the party 's four tickets and travelling expenses . |
13 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
14 | The committee headed by Dame Gillian Brown held a Literary Lunch in honour of Penelope Fitzgerald a fascinating occasion that also raised £2000 for the Appeal . |
15 | The ewes and lambs should then be grazed on pasture which , in temperate areas at least , should not have been used by sheep during the previous year . |
16 | In lighter tone the Mad Hatters Tea Party was a great success , raising £88.86 for the national RBLWS birthday scheme . |
17 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
18 | Two years ago the couple paid £175,000 for the house at Baunton near Cirencester . |
19 | In the heifer classes the top bid was 2,000gns for the champion from Messrs McConchie which was purchased by JJ Patterson of Kirktonhill and Glengelt Farms , Oxton , Lauder , while the reserve champion Jenny l86th from J&W Wilson of Kirkmabreck , Creetown was bought at 900gns by R&K Drysdale , Old Cambus Quarry , Cockburnspath , Berwick . |
20 | There is little doubt that a response rate of 63% for the fluticasone group does represent a therapeutic effect . |
21 | MAKE : BMW MODEL : 520i SE AGE : 1990 ( H-Reg ) MILEAGE : 28,000 PRICE : £14,500 FOR the sleekest , sexiest saloon shape on the road , it 's hard to beat the BMW 5 series . |
22 | The 600 is priced from £13,995 for the 620i to £21,995 for the top-of-the-range 623GSi which I tested recently . |
23 | For all CypA atoms , including side chains , the average r.m.s.d. between the observed and five-fold calculated positions , is 0.61Å and for C α atoms this r.m.s.d. is 0.26Å . |
24 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
25 | gain a weighted aggregate of 50% for the area of study overall . |
26 | Assuming a mean temperature of 14°C for the earth and lower atmosphere as a whole , all but a very few homeotherms in tropical regions lose heat constantly to the environment . |
27 | It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan — in total a yearly income of just £2,685 . |
28 | Candidates whose spending remained below the thresholds of $600,000 for the House and $5,500,000 for the Senate , would be eligible for federal campaign funds . |
29 | The money they had to pay the sheep for the Cuddly Woolly Protection Racket did seem a lot . |
30 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |