Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] at the " in BNC.

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1 The increase in borrowings had been $1.1 billion at the mid-year , with $0.6 billion being repaid in the second half of the year .
2 With the authorities buying in gilt-edged stock the size of the market has declined — from £142 billion at the end of 1988 to £129 billion at the end of 1989 .
3 Its total assets on January 1st were only 959.9 billion roubles , or $1.3 billion at the exchange rate of the day ; at today 's rates they are more like $1 billion .
4 Trident was hugely expensive — £10 billion at the first assessment alone .
5 Shearer , who became British football 's most expensive player when he moved from Southampton to Blackburn for £3.4 million at the start of the season , has played only 30 minutes since Boxing Day .
6 Is my hon. Friend aware that the tyranny that controls education in Nottinghamshire holds back £10 or more for each and every child above that national average , that it is somewhere around two thirds of the way down the merit table for putting resources where they belong — at the school — and sits on about £3 million at the centre , which is the same as holding back £5,000 for every school in the county ?
7 On May 24 , 1989 , the Paris Club creditor nations agreed to reschedule approximately $550 million of Cameroon 's outstanding public foreign debt ( estimated at $2,785 million at the end of 1987 by the World Bank ) .
8 The Bank 's holdings of commercial bills — the " bill mountain " — fell from a peak level of £14.3 billion in February 1985 to £2.4 billion at the end of June 1989 .
9 The only real worry is that , to finance a strategy driven by buying other firms , Hanson keeps a large cash balance — £7 billion at the last count .
10 According to official Chinese estimates , the stock of Taiwanese investment in the mainland jumped from $1.4 billion at the end of 1991 to $1 billion at the end of 1992 .
11 Yet the resources available to these boroughs through Housing Investment Programme allocations fell from around £160 million at the end of the 1970s to about £60 million in real terms by 1987–8 .
12 Wayne 's World , in which he plays the villain , had grossed $110 million at the last count .
13 The report noted that sharp increases in arrears on interest payments to commercial banks , from about $10,000 million at the end of 1988 to about $16,400 million a year later , meant that " the prospects for any increases in sources of external financing for the developing countries are not promising " .
14 The value of annual imports rose rapidly from £276 in 1722 to almost £80 000 at the end of the century .
15 With the authorities buying in gilt-edged stock the size of the market has declined — from £142 billion at the end of 1988 to £129 billion at the end of 1989 .
16 The government has been spending beyond its means , with a budget deficit last year of 120 billion roubles ( £120 billion at the official rate ) , or 10 per cent of GNP .
17 Saying that controls would be maintained on capital construction , currency issuance , and expenditure and imports , he called for growth in exports to increase foreign exchange reserves , variously stated to be between $14,200 and $16,300 million at the end of 1989 .
18 These show that the property portfolio is worth about £1.2 billion at present prices compared with £1.7 billion at the last year end .
19 As a result , the book value of the company 's debt rose from £8.2 billion at the end of 1991 to £10.2 billion a year later , though the dollar equivalent remained virtually unchanged at $15.3 billion .
20 The growth rate of the ECP market has been impressive , growing from around $10 billion outstanding at the end of 1985 to $70 billion at the end of 1990 .
21 In a statement to the Skupština in July 1987 ( Politika , 25 July ( 987 ) , the vice-president of the government mentioned that the total foreign exchange losses of banks and ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ( presumably at that time ) amounted to 10,000 billion dinars , which would have been equivalent to about $15 billion at the current rate of exchange .
22 Since Macaulay 's latest film Home Alone II : Lost In New York was released three days ago it has taken £2.2 million at the box office and a million people have packed cinemas across the country to watch it .
23 Little Big Man was released in 1970 and took a healthy $15 million at the box office .
24 Zotkin and Tsikulin measured the azimuths of 40,000 felled tree trunks over 2,200km 2 at the Tunguska site , and reproduced the observed ‘ butterfly ’ pattern in the laboratory by superimposing a terminal point charge and an inclined line charge .
25 The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January .
26 China has seen an even more spectacular jump , from $10 billion at the end of 1990 to $16 billion last September ( the latest figure ) .
27 America has seen nearly 400 buy-outs of public companies , worth $182 billion at the end of 1988 , since 1984 when the idea took wing .
28 The prospectus shows borrowings of £48.3 million dwarfed shareholders ' funds of £19.8 million at the last balance sheet date on 9 January .
29 But the strength of the operations are reflected in the quarterly breakdown of income from E&P which rose from £414 million at the start of 1992 to £515 million in the final quarter .
30 A mechanical wound was produced by crushing an area of 1cm 2 at the distal end of the cotyledon of a tomato seedling at the stage of development shown in Fig. 1 a , followed immediately by crushing a similar area on the proximal side of the first wound .
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