Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way to help them all is Labour 's way — by increasing child benefit to £9.95 for every child , to reflect 1987 value . |
| 2 | The range consists of 17 items with prices starting from £1 for a guest soap up to £9.95 for a pair of luxury coathangers . |
| 3 | Prices range from £9.95 for a three-metre black , blue or red cable up to £13.95 for a 5 metre orange or green version , £15.95 for a 5m translucent pink jobbie and £17.95 for a 5m toaster-type . |
| 4 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 5 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A maximum of £3,300 for a perimeter board facing the television cameras and £2,600 for a season 's worth of full-page advertisements in the match-day programme . |
| 8 | The desktop , or client , versions of Windows NT will be priced at £400 — $500 — on a per-unit basis , or £250 as an upgrade from Windows 3.1 or OS/2 . |
| 9 | The desktop , or client , versions of Windows NT will be priced at £400 — $500 — on a per-unit basis , or £250 as an upgrade from Windows 3.1 or OS/2 . |
| 10 | Sickness benefit is payable for up to twenty-eight weeks if a person is incapacitated for work at the rate of£33.20 a week , together with £20.55 for an adult dependant . |
| 11 | When Evangelista demanded £8,800 for an appearance at Valentino 's show last year , he refused : ‘ I like them , but I hate the stardom created around them , ’ he said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And BaByliss has brought out Soft Curlers ( around £27 for a set of 20 ) , which have easy-to-use fasteners . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Charges £69 for a course of 10 one-hour sessions on the toning tables ( nine minutes on each of the six tables per session ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London . |
| 22 | Two years ago the couple paid £175,000 for the house at Baunton near Cirencester . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is little doubt that a response rate of 63% for the fluticasone group does represent a therapeutic effect . |
| 25 | All prices for cushions are inclusive of the feather pad and VAT and start from £7.95 for a cotton , contrast piped , 16″ × 16″ cushion with a choice of 30 colours ! |
| 26 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 27 | Values obtaining south of the Humber — at least 5s. for a cow or 4s. for a steer — can hardly have applied : even the smallest stock farm must have carried more than just one or two ; sheep fetched 1s. apiece in other parts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Over the past few years , total occupied floor space has declined by 9.2m as a result of facilities being closed or consolidated . |
| 30 | Roy beached the specimens of 4 lb 4 oz and 3 lb 6 oz during a session on the River Exe at Starcross to smash Teignmouth SAS 's outer area shore-caught best . |