Example sentences of "[n mass] for 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In lighter tone the Mad Hatters Tea Party was a great success , raising £88.86 for the national RBLWS birthday scheme . |
| 14 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 15 | Two years ago the couple paid £175,000 for the house at Baunton near Cirencester . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is little doubt that a response rate of 63% for the fluticasone group does represent a therapeutic effect . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The 600 is priced from £13,995 for the 620i to £21,995 for the top-of-the-range 623GSi which I tested recently . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | gain a weighted aggregate of 50% for the area of study overall . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan — in total a yearly income of just £2,685 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The money they had to pay the sheep for the Cuddly Woolly Protection Racket did seem a lot . |
| 26 | Two pieces 11¼ × 16⅜in for the ends , two pieces 16⅜ × 33⅝in for the sides and two pieces 10½ × 33½in for the top and bottom . |
| 27 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 28 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 29 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 30 | M&J Ross and Son of Romesbeoch , Shawhead , Dumfries , received a 3,400gn bid for their Zora of Romesbeoch from J&JW Ions of Thorneyburn , Hexham and RT Lawson and Son , Airlies Farm , Wigtown , went to 2,800gns for the second prizewinner Zulu , the September l991 bull brought out by Ian Henderson of Langholm . |