Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] [n mass] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She now has a bill of £500 from the council for over-payment of housing benefit , a sum that she has difficulty in repaying on a net income after rent of £23 a week . |
| 2 | Contracts closed with losses of £32 to £44 a tonne despite late shortcovering and technical buying which helped the market stage a partial late rally . |
| 3 | Mr Sherwood has offered to raise $1.1billion from the sell-offs , and would use at least half the proceeds to buy back stock from shareholders at $70 a share . |
| 4 | Mrs Robinson quit her pub , the Banktop Grey Horse , on Wednesday rather than face near doubling of her rent from £13,000 to £25,000 a year . |
| 5 | The split happened after a property company took over the White Hart and raised the rent from £20,000 to £37,000 a year . |
| 6 | The US corporation Air Express International is one of the longest established and largest freight forwarders , with 27 subsidiary companies and a network of agents around the world and a turnover in excess of $600m a year . |
| 7 | He is the managing director of a Highland company which , since he took over exactly a year ago , has increased its workforce from four to 14 and its turnover from £40,000 to £400,000 a year . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many non-pensioners with annual gross incomes below £10,000 a year would be affected by the imposition of national insurance contributions on income from savings in excess of £3,000 a year . |
| 9 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 10 | Around 35 companies offer PMI from £85 to £1,800 a year for a couple , depending on age , health and extent of cover . |
| 11 | Earnings were 1.99p after a loss per share of 1.79p a share in 1990 . |
| 12 | For instance , if child benefit had been uprated fully in line with prices since 1984 , a three-child family would receive £31.20 a week from next April , whereas they will receive only £25.25p — £5.95p a week less than in 1984 , or a loss per child of £100 a year . |
| 13 | This year Benskins came back with a demand for a £5,000 a year increase that would have taken John 's annual rent to £23,000 plus £100 a week for the business rate . |
| 14 | I hired a Piper PA-28/181 Archer from the Otago Flying Club at Taieri for $130 an hour . |
| 15 | Farmers say an increase in the badger population is leading to more cases of tuberculosis in cattle.In the past three years , cases of bovine TB have doubled in one county alone . |
| 16 | Carpetright is to float with a price tag of £113.6m at 148p a share in a move which will enable another major investor , the MFI furniture group , to raise a total of £21.7m which will be used to cut debt . |
| 17 | Carpetright is to float with a price tag of £113.6m at 148p a share in a move which will enable another major investor , the MFI furniture group , to raise a total of £21.7m which will be used to cut debt . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and Oracle Corp say that under the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A the eight-processor model of Sun Microsystems ' new Sparcserver 1000 under Oracle7 Co-operative Server delivered 400.80 transactions a second for price-performance of $5,987 a tpsA . |
| 19 | Brittany and the South of France from £135 a week |
| 20 | Resellers are being given rebates of $1,000 to $4,000 a hit depending on the System 3000 configuration . |
| 21 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said . |
| 22 | Midland 's shares were knocked by the Kuwait Investment Office 's surprise decision to sell its 10 p.c. stake in Midland at 362p a share through stockbroker Hoare Govett . |
| 23 | Those green shoots of economic spring here in the UK are beginning to feel a mite lonely as the gross domestic product figures from the US yesterday brought more evidence that the recovery there seems to have stalled , and analysts are redoing their sums on IBM Corp in light of recent information : Furman Selz removed the company from its recommended list and analyst Peter Lieu said he lowered his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates because of the extreme gross margin pressure on the mainframe business ; Bear Stearns & Co analyst Cliff Friedman cut his 1993 and 1994 earnings estimates on IBM , but bravely maintains a hold rating on the stock ; he trimmed his 1993 estimates on IBM to break-even from $1.25 a share and cut his 1994 estimates to $2.25 , from $3.25 , again citing weak mainframe demand . |
| 24 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose warns that it will likely report a first quarter loss on revenues 15% to 20% below analysts ' expectations of $20.5m ; it did $770,000 net or $0.07 per share on $13.3m a year ago and says the shortfall is from the Frame North America distribution organisation ‘ which has experienced lower than expected sell-through ; ’ business projections are on target for Europe and OEM units but it is restructuring the North American sales organisation , establishing a separate sales division to focus on direct corporate sales . |
| 25 | Chairman Ned Spence and committeeman Wilfred Lowes will be celebrating ten years service awards with beer at 50p a pint . |
| 26 | In that case he raised the weekly dependency on this basis from £12.50 to £20.00 a week . |
| 27 | There is a difference in price of 4p a pound in poultry meat due to inspection charges . |
| 28 | I used to struggle , working in a hosiery shop on weekends for $20 a day . |
| 29 | However , the largest of these in 1892 set to work only 253 out of 716 applicants in West Ham , converting wasteland to allotments at 6d. an hour for 45 hours work per week . |
| 30 | , In a policy document on transport , the Green Party has called for a rise in the price of petrol to £6 a gallon ( a 170 per cent increase ) , a halt to new road building , a speed limit of 50 mph on motorways , and heavy investment in public transport . |